By Danielle Paquette “Women are highly invested in their education — more so than men — and this should lead to a relative increase in their earnings,” Ariane Hegewisch, program director for employment and earnings at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, wrote this week in [...]

By Sara Israelsen-Hartley In fact, nearly 1 in 3 Utah women age 25 and older has some college education but no degree, compared with slightly more than 1 in 5 women nationally, according to the Institute for Women's Policy Research. Nationally, women are graduating with bachelor's degrees [...]

By Anna North As Vox’s Sarah Kliff explains, we often talk about “the wage gap” as a single entity, but there are many different wage gaps. In 2016, Asian-American women made about 88 centsfor every dollar white men made, while white women made 79 cents, black women made [...]

By Nicole Knight “Look, we know if we don’t do anything and just keep the laws as they are, we’ll address the pay gap issue in probably 2043,” she said. The Institute for Women’s Policy Research estimates it’ll take until 2043 to close the wage gap in California, [...]

By Grace Donnelly The current rate of growth indicates that women won't pull even with men until 2059, according to analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. The good news is that women's wages have returned to 2007 pre-recession levels. Though the last few years [...]

By Torey Van Oot Services like these are the exception, not the rule, and even colleges with support systems for parents in place can’t keep up with the demand for care. The Institute for Women’s Policy Research found that 95% of institutions with child care options had [...]