Watch: Martha Burk discusses equal pay initiative in New Mexico
https://youtu.be/qhl7tvs7zJg Martha Burk (Director, Corporate Accountability Project, National Council of [...]
Top 5 Recent IWPR Findings
By Jennifer Clark When IWPR posted a “Top 5” list [...]
A Partial Fix for Closing the Wage Gap: End Segregation in the Labor Market
by Barbara Gault So, the wage gap is still going [...]
A College Student’s Take on the Gender Wage Gap
By Lauren Hepler In honor of Equal Pay Day, IWPR [...]
Dukes v. Wal-Mart and the Importance of Class Action Lawsuits in Addressing Systemic Sex Discrimination in the Workplace
By Jennifer Clark and Ariane Hegewisch The Supreme Court heard [...]
Ending Sex and Race Discrimination in the Workplace: Legal Interventions That Push the Envelope (Executive Summary)
This report draws on the IWPR/WAGE Consent Decree Database to analyze the injunctive relief awarded in 502 sex and/or race discrimination settlements that became effective between 2000 and 2008. (Executive Summary)
Separate and Not Equal? Gender Segregation in the Labor Market and the Gender Wage Gap
Occupational gender segregation is a strong feature of the US labor market. While some occupations have become increasingly integrated over time, others remain highly dominated by either men or women. Our analysis of trends in overall gender segregation shows that, after a considerable move towards more integrated occupations in the 1970s and 1980s, progress has completely stalled since the mid 1990s.
Wal-Mart in Trouble, Yet Again
The worldâs largest private employer is feeling the heat for [...]
Wal-Mart Loses Round 1
A Wal-Mart in Bloomington Indiana (Photo by Jason Grote, flickr) [...]
Report to the Maryland Equal Pay Commission
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research constructed a dataset from the 2002 through 2004 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Files (ACS) for people residing in the state of Maryland.
