FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – July 2, 2021 Contact: Erin Weber | weber@iwpr.org | (646) 719-7021 Washington, DC – This month’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) confirms substantial growth, with 405,000 new jobs on payroll for women (47.6% of 850,000 total). Yet, [...]
By Emma Goldberg Carolyn Kopprasch earns $225,000 a year. Maria Thomas makes $267,890. Then comes Darcy Peters with a salary of $105,143. That information, taken in before I exchange pleasantries with these women, feels almost illicit — like the confessions of a stranger oversharing at [...]
By Bethany Biron When Rosalind Brewer was appointed as CEO of Walgreens in March, she became not just the only Black CEO of a Fortune 500 company, but also one of the few women in C-suite positions in the entire retail industry. According to the [...]
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research president and CEO C. Nicole Mason announced a new Board Chair, Nadia Allaudin, Board Member, Eve Rodsky, and Vice President of Advancement, Carl Davis, Jr.—all changes designed to increase IWPR’s ability to win economic equity for all women and [...]
By Lindsay Aerts A new report ranking women’s wages and employment compared to other states gave Utah a C-minus grade. But one local researcher says she’s encouraged by this ranking. “Utah has a C minus. Actually I’m kind of encouraged by that, I know that [...]
By Susan R. Madsen Across the country, schools have come to a close and, for better or worse, students’ grades have been posted. Similarly the Institute for Women’s Policy Research in Washington, D.C., has just issued its annual “Status of Women in the States,” which [...]
