Excerpt: Glamour by Abby Haglage If you thought the gender pay gap statistics couldn’t get worse, think again. A new report Monday estimates that it will take 232 years to eliminate the gender pay gap for Hispanic women, compared to 108 years for black women and 40 years for white women. The report, released by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, comes on the … [Read more...] about It Will Take Centuries for Hispanic Women to Close the Gender Pay Gap
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How Equal Pay for Working Women would Reduce Poverty and Grow the American Economy
According to a regression analysis of federal data by the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR), the poverty rate for working women would be cut in half if women were paid the same as comparable men. The analysis—prepared by IWPR for use in The Shriver Report's A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink, produced in partnership with the Center for American … [Read more...] about How Equal Pay for Working Women would Reduce Poverty and Grow the American Economy