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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|

This Map Shows When Female Workers in Each State Will Achieve Equal Pay

By Krutika Pathi Women in Florida may be the first in the U.S. to achieve paycheck parity in 2038, while those in Wyoming may be among the last to close the wage gap, not getting there until 2153. According to new research released today by [...]

March 22, 2017|Categories: Press Hits|

In 13 U.S. States, a Woman Born Today Will Not See Equal Pay During Her Working Life

If current trends continue, women living in North Dakota, Utah, Louisiana, and Wyoming will not see equal pay until the next century Washington, DC—According to a new state analysis released today by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), there are 13 states where progress [...]

March 22, 2017|Categories: Press Releases|

Your Great Great Great Granddaughter Will Be Paid As Much As a Man

By Clover Hope But today, in 2017, an equal-pay future remains a distant reality, especially for women of color. According to new data from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, the wage gap is closing at a depressingly slow rate, in almost every job across the [...]

March 13, 2017|Categories: Press Hits|