Supreme Court Known for the Overturn of Roe v. Wade Tackles Medication Abortion, but the Safety and Effectiveness of Mifepristone Is Not in Question
Access to abortion is once again before the Supreme Court as it hears arguments about mifepristone, the medication abortion drug used safely by millions of women over the last 20 years.
On Equal Pay Day 2024, New IWPR Report Reveals that Women Earn Less than Men in All Occupations, Even Ones Commonly Held by Women
Women are paid eighty-four (84) cents for every dollar a man makes, a persistent gender wage gap that spans all professions, even those typically held by women, according to a new report released by IWPR
New Data: Latinas Will Not Reach Pay Equity with White Men until 2207
In 2022, Latinas working full-time year-round were paid just 57.5 cents for every dollar paid to White, non-Hispanic men, an astounding gap that will take almost two centuries to remedy.
In 2021, Working Moms Made Just 62 Cents on the Dollar Compared to Working Fathers
August 15 was Mom's Equal Pay Day and IWPR's research shows that mothers were paid less than fathers in every single state and the District of Columbia in 2021.
July 27 is Black Women's Equal Pay Day and IWPR Research Shows Black Women Earn Less than White Men in Every State
Black women earned 64 cents for every dollar earned by White men in 2022 and won't reach pay equity until 2144, according to data released by IWPR ahead of Black women’s Equal Pay Day.
According to an Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the November employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), women have surpassed their prior employment peak reached in March 2008. Whereas women have regained all the jobs they lost in the recession, men have so far regained only 73 percent of the jobs they lost.
New analysis from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that, as of June 2013, men had regained only 68 percent of the jobs they lost in the recession and women had regained 91 percent of the jobs they lost. Women’s and men’s job growth during the recovery has been largely affected by two trends: contraction in government jobs and growth in industries with high concentrations of women workers. IWPR’s paper analyzes job growth for the four years of the recovery, from June 2009, the official end of the recession, to June 2013.
As the DC City Council considers the “Earned Sick and Safe Leave Amendment Act of 2013,” a proposed amendment that would expand the existing paid sick days law to more workers, a new analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) shows that providing paid sick days to newly covered workers under the proposed amendment is expected to save DC employers approximately $2 million per year.
Today, the Older Women’s Economic Security Taskforce (OWES) of the National Council of Women’s Organizations and the Center for Community Change released a white paper proposing recommendations to improve Social Security for economically vulnerable Americans.
According to an Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the October employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), of the 148,000 total jobs added to nonfarm payrolls in September, women gained 76,000 of those jobs (51 percent) while men gained 72,000 jobs (49 percent).
A new analysis by the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) finds that the persistent gap in male and female poverty has been growing during the economic recovery, with 16.3 percent of females, and 13.6 percent of males living in poverty in 2012.