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#EqualPayDay: What you need to know about women in the workforce

Women make up roughly half the workforce. But in 2015, female full-time, year-round workers made only 80 cents for every dollar earned by men, a gender wage gap of 20%, according to the non-profit Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR). If change continues at the current [...]

April 4, 2017|Categories: Press Hits|

Equal Pay Day: The shocking profession with the biggest gender wage gap

By Quentin Fottrell Female personal financial advisers make little more than half (56.4%) of what their male counterparts make, compared to 83% overall, facing the widest wage gap across all occupations, according to a new analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, a Washington, [...]

April 4, 2017|Categories: Press Hits|

The face of ‘gig’ work is increasingly female — and empowered, survey finds

By Mina Haq Jessica Milli, who has studied the gig economy for the non-profit Institute for Women’s Policy Research, says it’s often the flexibility aspect that draws women to these jobs. They are "frustrated with the formal labor market because they don’t have the flexibility [...]

April 4, 2017|Categories: Press Hits|

Equal pay is widely understood to be a feminist issue — so why isn’t the Fight for $15?

By Marie Solis A November report from Oxfam America and the Institute for Women's Policy Research found that of the 23.5 million Americans working low-wage jobs, 19 million of them are women. Adult women made up some 75% of these low-wage earners as of 2014, and many of them are the [...]

April 4, 2017|Categories: Press Hits|