A fact sheet released today by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, shows that the gender wage gap has not narrowed during the last decade.
"Cost-conscious households are one reason employment in the childcare industry has dropped 1.8 percent since the recession ended June 2009, even as total U.S. payrolls increased 2.1 percent. Jobs in the sector hover at levels of five years ago as unemployed parents watch their children [...]
According to analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research of the August employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), private sector job growth continued in August with 103,000 jobs added to nonfarm payrolls.
"Men lost jobs at a greater rate in the first rush of the Great Recession in 2008, but women are now lagging far behind in the recovery. A report to be released today by The Institute for Women's Policy Research in Washington, D.C., and commissioned [...]
"On Labor Day 2012 the country is still recovering from the worst recession of modern times. Unemployment is stuck above 8 percent, and many of the jobs that have come back are lower level than the ones lost . But Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, [...]
"Women have trended Democratic since the Ronald Reagan-Jimmy Carter 1980 election, but abortion isn’t the driving issue, said Seth McKee, a University of South Florida political science professor. "It’s one of the myths in American politics that people think that’s where the gap comes from," [...]