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How Wall Street Keeps Outrageous Gender Bias Quiet 20 Years After the Boom-Boom Room
How Wall Street Keeps Outrageous Gender Bias Quiet 20 Years After the Boom-Boom Room

How Wall Street Keeps Outrageous Gender Bias Quiet 20 Years After the Boom-Boom Room

By Susan Antilla Everybody loves a half-price sale, and if you're a recruiter on Wall Street, there's always a markdown on female employees. Women in finance last year earned 52 cents for every dollar that men made in a job category the Bureau of Labor [...]

June 17, 2016|Categories: Press Hits|

U.S. Soccer Is Saying There Isn’t A Gender Wage Gap
U.S. Soccer Is Saying There Isn’t A Gender Wage Gap

U.S. Soccer Is Saying There Isn’t A Gender Wage Gap

By Haley Goldberg In April, Alex Morgan and four of her fellow U.S. women’s national teammates made a major move off the field: They filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the U.S. Soccer Federation, demanding the women’s national team (WNT) players receive equal pay to the [...]

June 7, 2016|Categories: Press Hits|

Economic Security for Survivors Project and BEST Index Transitions to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research

On June 1, the Economic Security for Survivors Project (ESS Project), founded by Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW), transitioned to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), as WOW winds down its operations. The ESS project seeks to build, protect, and restore the economic security of survivors of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and stalking so that they may be safe and free of abuse.

June 3, 2016|Categories: Press Releases|

IWPR Announces New Board Members and Election of Officers

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) is pleased to announce the addition of three new members to its board of directors, Katherine M. Kimpel, Esmeralda O. Lyn, Ph.D., and Elizabeth Shuler.

June 2, 2016|Categories: Press Releases|

10 Best Cities for Working Mothers
10 Best Cities for Working Mothers

10 Best Cities for Working Mothers

By Susan Adams If you start sorting for types of jobs, education and level of experience, you find a different story. Although all of this is in flux, women tend to go into lower-paying fields like receptionists, nurses and teachers while men gravitate to jobs [...]

May 16, 2016|Categories: Press Hits|

Mothers in College Have Declining Access to On-Campus Child Care
Mothers in College Have Declining Access to On-Campus Child Care

Mothers in College Have Declining Access to On-Campus Child Care

As Mother’s Day approaches, the 3.4 million mothers in college are performing a complicated balancing act. According to new IWPR analysis, availability of on-campus child care continued to decline in 2014, with just half of public four-year institutions providing on-campus child care services, down from a high of 55 percent in 2003-05.

May 6, 2016|Categories: Press Releases|

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