By Julia Carpenter Trucking, after all, is grueling work: long shifts, night hours and lots of solitary work. It's also a traditionally male-dominated industry — according to the Institute for Women's Policy Research, less than 5% of truck drivers are female. Occupations like carpentry, construction and [...]

By Ellie Mertens Inventorship outside the US is not much better, according to a 2017 WIPO report, 30.5% of international patent applications include at least one women inventor. It says that global gender parity in inventorship remains "a distant prospect". The Institute for Women's Policy [...]

By Amanda Iacone Women in the U.S. earn 85 percent of what their male peers take home—an improvement from 81 percent the prior year. But the wage gap grows as workers age. Women 50 and older earn just 80 percent of what their male colleagues make. [...]

by Barbara Humpton It's unlikely we can close the nation's STEM gender gap without granting more degrees in these fields to moms and making college and careers work for them. Mothers of dependent children comprise only 16% of US college students, according to the Institute [...]

By Julia Carpenter "If we think about office jobs — secretaries, receptionists — a lot of those things have been automated," says Chandra Childers, study director at the Institute for Women's Policy Research. "We're already seeing potential for that world to change." >>Read more

by Jamal Watson The new initiative was announced on Wednesday by Dr. Jill Biden, the former Second Lady who is also an English professor at Northern Virginia Community College. “Teaching isn’t just what I do,” Biden told the more than 2,400 Achieving the Dream (ATD) conference attendees who [...]