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Women Workers in a Post-Walmart World
By Katherine Kimpel Last week, the Supreme Court issued a decision that makes it harder for women in the workplace to protect their rights to be free from discrimination. In reaching their decision in...
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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...
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Facing the Wage Gap as a Female College Grad
IWPR Research Intern Vanessa Harbin by Vanessa Harbin As someone who considers herself to be pretty plugged in to gender issues, I have often heard the statistic about the ratio of women’s and men’s...
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The Wage Gap: Myths vs. Realities
By Heidi Hartmann We owe a debt of gratitude to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow for pointing out the differing perceptions people have about the gender wage gap. In April, she invited me on her show to set...
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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...
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Revisiting the Poverty Rate: New Measure Shows Less Inequality
By Jacqui Logan A recent IWPR fact sheet, “A Clearer View of Poverty: How the Supplemental Poverty Measure Changes Our Perceptions of Who is Living in Poverty” by Jocelyn Fischer, examines the recently...
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