4. We've come a long way, but progress has stalled After strong progress shrinking the pay disparity in the 1980s and 1990s, the improvement has slowed recently. "Progress has really slowed down and for the last decade or so, change has been modular," said Ariane [...]

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By Lindsey Jacboson In 2015, full-time/year-round female workers earned 79.6 percent of what their male counterparts made, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). The gap is greater for black and Hispanic women. There has not been a statistically significant annual increase in [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]