The report was conducted by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, and is one of a series of four focusing on women’s issues in the state. Last year’s report on Earnings and Employment found that the state has a 19 percent gender wage gap, and [...]

In 2018, 75,978,000 women were part of the U.S. labor force, representing 46.9% of its total strength. Even though progress has been made in combating gender discrimination in the workplace, the gender pay gap remains much more pronounced than commonly assumed. In November 2018, the [...]

Twenty percent of college students in the United States are raising children, yet the much-touted “free college” initiatives, also known as Promise programs, often “unintentionally exclude” these students when offering financial support, according to a briefing paper released this week by the Institute for Women’s [...]

About 300,000 workers don't have paid sick leave in Dallas, according to a study by the Institute for Women's Policy Research, which relied on 2016 U.S. census data. The study concluded that number disproportionately affects people of color and low-income workers — two populations unlikely [...]

Women have made up the majority of people with bachelor’s degrees since 2007, Pew notes, but it wasn’t until 12 years later that they accounted for the majority of the college-educated workforce. That’s because college-educated women are less-likely to be working than men in large [...]