Press Releases
Report Finds Higher Women's Poverty Rates, Stubborn Gender Wage Gap in the Washington Region
Washington, DC—A new report produced by the Washington Area Women's Foundation, in conjunction with the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) and the Urban Institute, found a persistent gender wage gap and increasing poverty levels among women and girls. A fact sheet update to the [...]
Report Finds Higher Women’s Poverty Rates, Stubborn Gender Wage Gap in the Washington Region
Washington, DC—A new report produced by the Washington Area Women's Foundation, in conjunction with the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) and the Urban Institute, found a persistent gender wage gap and increasing poverty levels among women and girls. A fact sheet update to the [...]
Business-commissioned Study Inflates Cost of NYC Paid Sick Leave, Say Researchers
In a letter to the Speaker of the New York City Council, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) and other leading scholars outlined flaws in a study by the Partnership for New York City estimating high costs to businesses due to proposed paid sick [...]
Public Assistance Not Reaching Poor Women During Recession; Tremendous Variation across the States
WASHINGTON, DC – Over fifteen and a half million women are living in poverty but, as a briefing paper released today by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) shows, the number of women receiving public assistance is much smaller. Further, the distribution of supports [...]
Gender Wage Gap Stagnant Overall, Women Not Doing Better
Washington, DC—A new fact sheet released today by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), based on data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census, shows that in 2009 median annual earnings for employed women were $36,278, compared with $47,127 for men, a female- to- [...]
Young Women Now Less Likely to Work in Same Jobs as Men; Wage Gap Continues Due to Occupational Segregation
WASHINGTON, DC—A new briefing paper from the Institute for Women's Policy Research charts occupational segregation since the early 1970s. Women continue to enter some high paying male-dominated professions, for example, rising from 4.0 percent to 32.2 percent of lawyers between 1972 and 2009, yet overall [...]