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Women still lagging men in salaries

Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, said she's been studying the pay-gap issue so long that she's generally pleased any time the gap narrows. But when she tells young women about it, they're always shocked and wonder why it's not rectified [...]

November 3, 2010|Categories: Press Hits|

Gender pay gap is smallest on record

The earnings gap between men and women has shrunk to a record low, partly because many women are prospering in the new economy and partly because men have been hit hard by the recession. Women earned 82.8% of the median weekly wage of men in [...]

November 3, 2010|Categories: Press Hits|

5 Years Post-Katrina, Housing Crisis Lingers in New Orleans
5 Years Post-Katrina, Housing Crisis Lingers in New Orleans

5 Years Post-Katrina, Housing Crisis Lingers in New Orleans

Though the storm has long since passed, women and children in New Orleans are still without shelter. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, while the city’s recovery hobbles forward after Hurricane Katrina’s punishing blows, a deep affordable housing crisis continues to hold back [...]

November 3, 2010|Categories: Press Hits|

The Truth Behind the Rumor That Young Women Have Beat the Wage Gap

It’s pretty simple: more women are graduating from college than men, so more young women are qualified for higher-paying entry-level jobs. Thus, in aggregate, millennial women are earning more than millennial men as they start their careers. Millennial Hispanic and black women make even more [...]

November 3, 2010|Categories: Press Hits|

Women: How Higher Education Doesn’t Pay
Women: How Higher Education Doesn’t Pay

Women: How Higher Education Doesn’t Pay

Gotta love it: the more education women get, the more they fall behind male peers in pay. It’s one of those conundrums - there are so many in the wage gap morass - that just doesn’t make sense. Thank goodness the Institute for Women’s Policy [...]

November 3, 2010|Categories: Press Hits|

Study: Less Black Women in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Study: Less Black Women in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Study: Less Black Women in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Fewer Black women remained, returned or moved to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, according to a new report by the Institute for Women's Policy Research, reports the Louisiana Weekly. While Black women continue to be the largest group of women in New Orleans, the population [...]

November 3, 2010|Categories: Press Hits|

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