By Caroline Ballard If trends continue, Wyoming will close its gender wage gap last out of all 50 states – in the year 2159. That’s based on historical wage data from between 1959 and 2013 analyzed by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Julie Anderson, a research associate at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, […]
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Women make less than men in Mississippi in every profession and at every income and education level. Though women make up half of the state’s workforce, women comprise 80 percent of the state’s minimum-wage workers.
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This year, April 12 marks another historic milestone, but hardly one to celebrate. It’s Equal Pay Day, marking the day when the average woman’s income—in addition to her 2015 wages—finally matches the amount the average man earned by the close of 2015.
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Florida has D-plus rating; only four other states have worse records, data shows
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By Aarp NewJersey (Patch Poster) In 2014, female full-time workers made only 79 cents for every dollar earned by men, a gender wage gap of 21 percent. The gender gap is worse for minority women. In 2012 the median annual earnings of Hispanic women were $28,424, just 54 percent of the median annual earnings of […]
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NC Policy Watch interviewed IWPR's Julie Anderson about The Status of Women in the South report and how North Carolina compares regionally and nationally.
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A new report from the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) has given women cause for concern about where the state is headed: Alabama ranked dead last on the status of women among the southern states.
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Women would have no problem finding a job if they were truly paid less than men, a state representative said during a hearing Wednesday on Capitol Hill.
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The latest report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that in Tennessee, closing the gender wage gap would cut poverty for working women by 44 percent and would add $8.7 billion to Tennessee’s economy.
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Texas is one of the worst states in the nation for women in terms of equality and opportunity, according to two new studies.
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