By Michelle Chen According to a 2003 study, “Over one-third of private sector employers…recently surveyed admitted to having specific rules prohibiting employees from discussing their pay with coworkers. In contrast, only about 1 in 14 employers have actively adopted a ‘pay openness’ policy,” which explicitly protects [...]

Quentin Fottrell There are only two occupations where women’s median earnings are slightly higher than men’s, while there are 107 occupations in which women’s median earnings were 95% or less than men’s for the same jobs. That’s according to research released earlier this year by the Institute [...]

by LaMont Jones And disaggregating the data to check gender gaps by race and ethnicity is likely to reveal even more nuanced gender gaps, Del Pilar suggested, noting the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) had done so in a study released in September 2017. The disparity in [...]

By The American Staff BioSTL was nationally recognized by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) as one of the organizations making strides to increase equity in entrepreneurship in its recently released report, "Closing the Gender Gap in Patenting, Innovation and Commercialization – Programs Promoting Equity and [...]

By Michael E. Kanell - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution In Georgia, 58.1 percent of women are in the labor force, compared with 68 percent of men, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Washington, D.C.-based group. In another sign of motherhood’s impact, the share of women working part-time is [...]