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Celebrating Title IX: On Track for Equality, Beyond the Sports Field
By Ann DeMeulenaere Weedon This week marks forty years since the passage of Title IX, an amendment that forbids discrimination on the basis of sex in public education or in any educational program or activity receiving federal funding. Also known … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Gender Equity, gender wage gap, Gwen Moore, STEM, Title IX
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Obama is Right About His Wage Gap Statistics
By Heidi Hartmann Despite recent criticism from “The Fact Checker” blog on The Washington Post, there is nothing at all misleading or biased about President Obama’s use of the 77 percent figure as a measure of wage inequality between women … Continue reading
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Tagged earnings, Equal Pay, gender wage gap, President Obama, The Washington Post, Wage Gap, women's earnings, Work
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STEM Report Points to a Means of Economic Security for Low-Income Women
By Margaret Kran-Annexstein Job opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) are some of the fastest-growing industries in the country yet women’s presence in STEM education at the community college level is dropping. Between 2000–2001 and 2008–2009, the number … Continue reading
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Tagged community college, Education, gender wage gap, Jobs, pay, pay equity, STEM, training, Women, Work
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Living on a Dime: Small Wages and Large Gender Wage Gap in Restaurant Industry, According to Recent Report
By Margaret Kran-Annexstein If I were to tell you that there are workers in the United States being paid $2.13 per hour, you’d probably tell me that that’s impossible because the minimum wage in this country is $7.25 and anything … Continue reading
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Tagged food stamps, gender wage gap, income, Jobs, living wage, minimum wage, restaurant industry, servers, Wage Gap, Women, Work
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New Research from IWPR Finds Low Literacy Hurts Women More Than Men
By Kevin Miller In an analysis of data from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy that was recently published, IWPR found that women earn less than men regardless of literacy level, but that women with low literacy levels are … Continue reading
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Tagged earnings, Education, gender wage gap, income, Jobs, literacy, pay gap, Research, Women
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Life-Time Self-Sufficiency: Eight Things Every Young Woman Should Know
By Minjon Tholen and Heidi Reynolds-Stenson An Institute for Women’s Policy Research study analyzing men and women’s earnings over a 15-year span found that women in the prime working ages of 26 to 59 made only 38 percent of what … Continue reading
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Tagged Career, Education, employment, Equal Pay, gender wage gap, retirement, student parents, Women, worklife, young women
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Social Security: A Lifeline for Latinas
by Mallory Mpare With talks about the national debt and deficit dominating policy discussions, much attention has been paid to the fabled contributions Social Security makes to the national debt. As has been said before (but clearly bears repeating), Social … Continue reading
Top 5 Recent IWPR Findings
By Jennifer Clark When IWPR posted a “Top 5” list of our most revealing research findings in December, we were so encouraged by the level of interest our readers showed in the post, that we decided to turn it into … Continue reading
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Tagged Child Care, Education, employment discrimination, Equal Pay, Family, gender wage gap, Paid Sick Days, Research, Social Security, student parents, Women
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A Partial Fix for Closing the Wage Gap: End Segregation in the Labor Market
by Barbara Gault So, the wage gap is still going strong, even though women have surpassed men in terms of number of higher degrees received. Women are now more likely than men to get bachelors’ degrees, master’s degrees, and Ph.D.’s. … Continue reading
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Tagged economy, Education, employment, Equal Pay, gender wage gap, unions, Wal-Mart, Women
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A College Student’s Take on the Gender Wage Gap
By Lauren Hepler In honor of Equal Pay Day, IWPR intern Lauren Hepler observes the impact of the gender wage gap as she looks to start a career after college. In this economy, it is very scary to be a … Continue reading
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Tagged employment, Equal Pay, Equal Pay Day, gender wage gap, Wal-Mart, women's earnings, young women
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