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How much money did women lose in California due to gender pay gap? What a new study found

The Bakersfield Californian California women and people of color are still getting paid substantially less than white men despite new state laws and policies designed to promote equal wages, according to recent analyses of data. On average, full-time female workers in California earned 87.6% of [...]

October 22, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , |

How the gender wage gap has changed over the last 40 years

The Pantagraph By Ellen Wulfhorst Women have long received unequal pay and unequal treatment in the American workplace, trailing men in terms of wages, overtime, opportunities, and promotions. The persistence of the gender pay gap is attributed by experts to an array of factors, including how [...]

October 22, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , |

Latinas are still the lowest paid group in the U.S. Experts have tips for combating the inequity

The Lily By Ingrid Cruz Oct. 21 marks another annual observation of Latina Equal Pay Day, which represents how far into the year Latinas, on average, needed to work to make up what White men made in the previous year. In other words, Latinas had [...]

October 22, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , |

Video from The Future of the Working Woman: How to Support Women in the Workforce

Watch the Recorded Event By Danesha Price Washingtonian On Thursday, October 14, Washingtonian brought together experts to discuss the future of working women. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many women lost their jobs or were forced to leave their careers to care for not only [...]

October 22, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , |

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research Applauds White House Gender Policy Council’s Release of Historic, Bold New National Strategy to Advance Gender Equity in the U.S.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 22, 2021 Contact: William Lutz | lutz@iwpr.org | (202) 684-7534 The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) Applauds White House Gender Policy Council’s Release of Historic, Bold New National Strategy to Advance Gender Equity in the U.S. Washington, D.C. — IWPR [...]

October 22, 2021|Categories: Press Releases|Tags: |

Child-Care Crisis Keeps U.S. Women Out of Workforce for Longer

BNN Bloomberg  By Molly Smith and Jill Shah (Bloomberg) -- School may be in session, but the dearth of child care is still proving to be a major hurdle to women reentering the U.S. labor market. The number of women on payrolls last month fell [...]

October 12, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , |