A recently released report, The Status of Women and Girls in West Virginia, shows women in the state have made gains in education and entrepreneurship, but still face disproportionate levels of poverty and a gaping gender wage gap. This report was written by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) in collaboration with the West Virginia Women’s Commission (WVWC).
New research from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that, at the current pace of progress, the wage gap between working men and women will not close until the year 2057. This updates previous research from IWPR showing that the wage gap would close in 2056 because slow progress in recent years moves the goal for equality one year further away.
Heidi Hartmann is president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research . Updated March 31, 2013, 6:26 PM Getting paid fairly for the work you do is tough for almost everyone, but a few things going on in the United States labor market make it [...]
College is hard to get through, but throw a baby into the mix and it becomes even tougher . According to the Institute for Women's Policy Research, a nonprofit think tank in Washington, D.C., approximately 1 out of 4 undergraduate students has a dependent of [...]
New research by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) provides the first ever state-by-state estimates of women’s share of green jobs in the United States, and finds a smaller wage gap in the green economy overall.
Research released today shows that women and girls are still sorely underrepresented in Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs that prepare students for careers in high-paying occupations in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), the skilled trades, and other occupations traditionally done by men.
