NYC Takes Action to Address the Gender Wage Gap
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Equal Pay Day 2022: Digging Deeper into This Year’s Gender Wage Gap
Equal Pay Day, March 15th, is a day of observance [...]
Gender Wage Gaps Remain Wide in Year Two of the Pandemic
In 2021, women earned just 83.1 percent of what men earned, based on IWPR’s analysis of median weekly earnings for full-time workers.
Equal Pay Policies and the Gender Wage Gap: A Compilation of Recent Research
This brief compiles recent research on the impact of equal pay laws and policies on the gender wage gap.
The States Making Strides to Close the Gender Wage Gap
In 2020, women made 83 cents on the dollar compared [...]
How the gender wage gap has changed over the last 40 years
The Pantagraph By Ellen Wulfhorst Women have long received unequal [...]
Louisiana has one of the largest gender wage gaps in the country
By Alyssa Azzara MONROE, La. (KNOE) - March 24 was [...]
The Gender Wage Gap by Occupation, Race, and Ethnicity 2020
In 2020, women earned less than men in almost all occupations, whether they worked in predominantly male, predominantly female, or more integrated occupations. In the lowest paid of the largest 20 occupations for women, Maids and Housekeepers ($503 per week), women are nine-in-ten workers (and face a wage gap of 10.6 percent); in the highest paid of the largest 20 occupations for men, Chief Executives ($2,402 per week), women are fewer than one-in-three workers (and face a wage gap of 24.4 percent).
Gender wage gap shrank because of COVID-19, but that’s not a good thing
By Thuy Lan Nguyen Millions of people have been put [...]
Gender Wage Gap Shrinks in 2020 Due to Tremendous Job Losses for Lowest Paid – Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist
Washington, DC – A new policy brief, The Weekly Gender Wage Gap by Race and Ethnicity: 2020 from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), provides the first data on COVID-19’s impact on the gender wage gap. It finds that the wage gap narrowed, but reasons for the change point to growing inequality instead of progress for women. Women’s average earnings increased more than men’s because lowest paid women were the most likely to lose jobs during the COVID-19 shecession – and are no longer counted in the average women’s weekly median earnings. As a result of the missing lowest-paid women, the gender wage gap narrowed, between all women and men, and between women and men by race and ethnicity.
