Young Women Are Dropping Out of School and Work. Is Caregiving the Culprit?
By Alisha Haridasani Gupta A year into the pandemic, there [...]
Young Women in the “She-cession”: Centering the Experience of Young Women of Color
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated deep-seated inequalities in the society, [...]
New IWPR Report Highlights the Systemic Challenges Young Women of Color Are Facing in the COVID-19 Pandemic
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – April 6, 2021 Contact: Erin Weber [...]
Progress on Closing the Gender and Race Wage Gap is Too Slow: Inequality Between and Within Occupations
Equal Pay Day, March 24th of this year, marks how [...]
‘Sounding the Alarm’: Jacksonville research center finds Black girls receive unfair punishment
By Beth Reese Cravey Black girls are "disproportionately punished" in [...]
The Real Cost of Unequal Pay for Latinas
By Lola Méndez Dannie Fountain, who has been an account [...]
Latinas Projected to Reach Equal Pay in 2220
Latinas have made important strides in education, business creation, and political engagement. In recent decades, they have significantly increased their high school graduation rate and representation in teaching, law, medicine, and management professions. Yet in 2019, the average Latina earned only 55.4 percent of White non-Latino men’s earnings.
Women’s Median Earnings as a Percent of Men’s, 1985-2019 (Full-time, Year-Round Workers) with Projections for Pay Equity, by Race/Ethnicity
Notes: Estimates presented for All Women are based on [...]
Same Gap, Different Year: IWPR says wage gap persists
An analysis released today by the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) shows that women are still almost 40 years from reaching pay equity with men if trends continue at the current pace. Each year the wage gap persists, women fall further behind men in overall earnings and ability to build assets and wealth with a cumulative effect each year in which earnings differences continue.
Same Gap, Different Year. The Gender Wage Gap: 2019 Earnings Differences by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity
The rate of progress toward closing the gender pay gap did not increase in 2019. If the pace of change in the annual earnings ratio continues at the same rate as it has since 1960, it will take another 39 years, until 2059, for men and women to reach parity.1 This projection for equal pay has remained unchanged for the past four years.