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A key amenity missing from most college campuses (it’s not a gym or food court)
A key amenity missing from most college campuses (it’s not a gym or food court)

A key amenity missing from most college campuses (it’s not a gym or food court)

By Jillian Berman For many college students, sitting through a math class at 8 a.m. can be a challenge. But one morning a few years ago, Amber Angel encountered an obstacle during that early-morning lesson most don’t expect: Her water broke. Shortly thereafter, Angel gave [...]

September 10, 2016|Categories: Press Hits|

What Programming’s Past Reveals About Today’s Gender-Pay Gap
What Programming’s Past Reveals About Today’s Gender-Pay Gap

What Programming’s Past Reveals About Today’s Gender-Pay Gap

By Rhaina Cohen The crux of this argument is correct. Occupational segregation persists , and the fields that women dominate tend to pay less. Indeed, in a recent study, the Cornell University economists Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn examined data between 1980 and 2010 and [...]

September 9, 2016|Categories: Press Hits|

What Programming's Past Reveals About Today's Gender-Pay Gap
What Programming's Past Reveals About Today's Gender-Pay Gap

What Programming's Past Reveals About Today's Gender-Pay Gap

By Rhaina Cohen The crux of this argument is correct. Occupational segregation persists , and the fields that women dominate tend to pay less. Indeed, in a recent study, the Cornell University economists Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn examined data between 1980 and 2010 and [...]

September 9, 2016|Categories: Press Hits|

Half of all US Families have a Breadwinner Mother

New state-by-state analysis shows wide geographic variation of breadwinner mothers by race and ethnicity

September 8, 2016|Categories: Press Releases|

Campus Child Care Declining in Most States Despite Growing Numbers of College Students with Children

As nearly 5 million undergraduate students raising children return to college this fall, a new state-by-state analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that campus child care is declining in most states across the country, and that many states have rules making it difficult for students to get child care subsidies.

September 1, 2016|Categories: Press Releases|

Black Women Saw Wages Decline Three Times as Much as Women Overall in the Last Decade
Black Women Saw Wages Decline Three Times as Much as Women Overall in the Last Decade

Black Women Saw Wages Decline Three Times as Much as Women Overall in the Last Decade

In advance of African American Women’s Equal Pay Day on August 23—the day symbolizing how far into the year Black women must work to earn what White men earned in the previous year—the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) released an analysis finding that, between 2004 and 2014, Black women’s real median annual earnings for full-time, year-round work declined by 5.0 percent—more than three times as much as earnings for all women.

August 22, 2016|Categories: Press Releases|

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A key amenity missing from most college campuses (it’s not a gym or food court)

What Programming’s Past Reveals About Today’s Gender-Pay Gap

What Programming's Past Reveals About Today's Gender-Pay Gap

Black Women Saw Wages Decline Three Times as Much as Women Overall in the Last Decade

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