By Douglas A. McIntyre and John Harringto A new study says working women earn 49 cents for every dollar earned by a man, a claim that challenges most research that says women earn 80% of what men are paid on average across all industries. The report was produced [...]

By Anna North But matters are actually worse than any of these numbers would suggest, according to a report published Wednesday by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), a think tank that looks at public policy through the lens of gender. Measures of the pay gap typically compare [...]

By Michelle Chen The gender wage gap is a stubborn fixture of our economic landscape, but new research shows that the reality of today’s wage gap is more complicated than the figure often bandied about in Washington—“80 cents to a man’s dollar.” In fact, the [...]

By Emily Shugerman A study released Wednesday found that women workers in the United States earned less than half of what men did over the last 15 years. The study, conducted by economists at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, analyzed the incomes of men and women who [...]

By Emily Peck The gender wage gap is actually worse than you think, with women earning slightly less than half of what men make over the long term, according to a report released Wednesday by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. The standard wage gap [...]