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Pumping Life Into the Equal Rights Amendment

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD “This bill is about equality, period,” said State Senator Pat Spearman, pointing to a raft of well-documented studies of continuing inequality. For example, the gap in earnings between women and men will not close until the year 2058, according to the [...]

March 25, 2017|Categories: Press Hits|

Column: How government data is crucial for everyone’s progress

By Heidi Hartmann Policy research that analyzes data through a gender or racial lens is often seen as a niche field of study (with equally niche sources of funding). In reality, research on how policies and experiences affect women differently than men, and affect women [...]

March 24, 2017|Categories: Press Hits|

Here’s How Long It Will Take for Each State to Give Women Equal Pay

By Annalyn Kurtz Florida may be the first state to close the gender wage gap. Women in Wyoming, however, may have to wait until year 2153 until they make as much as their male counterparts. That’s according to projections released by the Institute for Women’s Policy [...]

March 22, 2017|Categories: Press Hits|

It’s going to take a while for women to get paid as much as men in North Carolina

By Katherine Peralta It is going to take another 43 years for women’s average pay in North Carolina to catch up with that of men. If average earnings of women and men employed full-time, year-round change at the rate they did from 1959-2015, the national [...]

March 22, 2017|Categories: Press Hits|

This State Is Forecast to Be the First to Eliminate the Gender Pay Gap

By Brad Tuttle The gender pay gap may be shrinking, but at the current pace it will be decades before women earn equal pay for the same work done by men around the U.S. And in a few states, the pay gap wouldn't close until the [...]

March 22, 2017|Categories: Press Hits|