By Alyssa Newcomb It gets even more dire. While the Equal Pay Act was passed in 1963, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research forecasts that pay parity won’t be reached in the United States until 2059, nearly 100 years after the legislation passed. >>Read more

By Caitlin Mullen, Bizwomen contributor A report from The Institute for Women’s Policy Research notes that although the African-American women’s workforce participation has historically been high — in 2017, that group’s labor force participation rate was 60.3 percent, compared to white and Hispanic women’s 56.4 percent — [...]

By Michelle Chen The evidence bears out women's choices; the long-term effects of abortion restrictions could be economically devastating for low income women. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, in the decades following Roe, abortion access has been correlated with increased labor force participation, as [...]

By Federiga Bindi and Mimosa Giamanco August 23 at 5:00 AM Throughout academia, including in political science, women haven’t achieved parity with men. As this series explores, implicit bias holds women back at every stage, from the readings professors assign to the student evaluations that influence promotions [...]

The new regulations likely won't faze businesses that already offer sick time or paid-time off benefits for employees. But the Institute for Women's Policy Research, which relied on U.S. census data, estimates that about 300,000 workers don't have paid sick leave. The study concluded that [...]

According to a 2017 study conducted by the Institute For Women’s Policy Research, Black women make just 60 percent of white men’s salaries while Latinx women make 53 percent. These percentages have dropped from the previous year. (In 2016, Black women made 62 percent of white men’s [...]