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Poverty, income gaps hit Hispanic women harder than any other group

By Dallas Morning News Editorial That is the case with a report recently released by the Dallas Women's Foundation and the Institute for Women's Policy Research that found that Hispanic women are locked in poverty in our area in stunning ways and at shocking rates. The report [...]

March 17, 2018|Categories: Press Hits|

Black comediennes speak out about Mo’Nique’s pay-gap campaign against Netflix

By Natelegé Whaley According to a report from the Institute of Women’s Policy Research, the median weekly earnings for black women full-time workers across 120 different occupations — including service, office and administrative support, and management, business and financial operations jobs — was 62.5% that of white men. Such gaps [...]

March 16, 2018|Categories: Press Hits|

Why We Should Be Talking About the Wealth Gap & Not Just the Wage Gap

By Colleen Stinchcombe By now, you're probably already familiar with the notorious wage gap between men and women. A study by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research of full-time workers between 2015 and 2016 showed that white women earn 79 cents to a white man’s dollar. Black [...]

March 15, 2018|Categories: Press Hits|

How women can close their own personal wage gap

By Sarah Watts If you're a working woman, you already know that we earn substantially less than men in nearly every industry. According to the Institute for Women's Policy Research, white women earned $0.79 for every dollar that a white male earned in 2016. What's worse, [...]

March 15, 2018|Categories: Press Hits|