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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|

A Different Kind of Gender Gap: Seven Places Where Women Earn More Than Men

By Tim Henderson Claudia Goldin, a Harvard University economist, argued in a 2015 paper that more flexible hours would go a long way toward solving the gender pay gap, which she said is often caused in part by women working fewer hours and stopping work at times, often [...]

March 14, 2018|Categories: Press Hits|

African-American unemployment is nearly twice as high as white unemployment

By Mitchell Hartman Also, in recent years, African-American women have been starting their own businesses at the highest rate of any demographic group, according to data compiled in a report by the Institute for Women's Policy Research and the National Domestic Workers Alliance. >>Read more

March 12, 2018|Categories: Press Hits|

Last Decade Saw Slowest Progress on Closing the Gender Wage Gap in Nearly 40 Years

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 7, 2018 Contact: Jennifer Clark | 202-785-5100 | clark@iwpr.org Washington, DC—In advance of International Women’s Day 2018 on March 8, a new fact sheet by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that the gender wage gap in median weekly earnings* [...]

March 7, 2018|Categories: Press Releases|

“We all wear black every day”: Inside Wall Street’s complex, shameful, and often confidential battle with #MeToo

By Bethany McLean Underneath the stories are the numbers, and these show that change, in the ways that matter most, have been superficial. A Government Accountability Office report from December 2017 concluded that women had made no progress—none—in increasing their ranks in management in the [...]

February 27, 2018|Categories: Press Hits|