Data Viz: What Is the Gender Wage Gap in Your State?

The gender-based wage gap in the United States has narrowed in recent years, but disparities remain: national median earnings for civilians who worked full-time, year-round in the past 12 months was$53,544 for men compared to $43,394 for women, according to the Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey (ACS). Read More [...]

By |2022-03-18T15:26:36+00:00March 18th, 2022|Features, The Buzz|Comments Off on Data Viz: What Is the Gender Wage Gap in Your State?

National Business Women’s Week

To honor the contributions of working women and employers who support working women and their families, Business and Professional Women’s Foundation celebrates National Business Women’s Week® (NBWW) every third week in October. National Business Women’s Week® provides an opportunity to call attention to women entrepreneurs, facilitate discussions on the [...]

By |2022-03-20T17:13:12+00:00March 17th, 2022|BPW in your community, Features, The Buzz|Comments Off on National Business Women’s Week

Job Growth Among Women Continues to Climb

65 percent of Jobs Added in the 3rd Quarter of 2016 Went to Women Source: Institute for Women's Policy Research (October 2016) The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the September employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) finds that women gained 56,000 jobs [...]

By |2019-09-08T15:40:27+00:00October 19th, 2016|BPW in your community, Features, The Buzz, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Job Growth Among Women Continues to Climb

Narrowing the wage gap

This report addresses women’s access to well-paid, growing, middle-skill jobs (jobs that do not require a bachelor’s degree). It documents sex segregation in middle-skill jobs, and discusses how gender integration of good jobs could both reduce skill-shortages and improve women’s economic security. The report focuses on middle-skill “target” occupations in manufacturing, [...]

By |2016-10-18T23:47:56+00:00October 18th, 2016|Features, The Buzz|Comments Off on Narrowing the wage gap

Working Mothers Issue Brief

Recently published by the U.S. Dept. of Labor, this Working Mothers Issue Brief presents statistics and information on working mothers. It highlights their employment characteristics, the changing structure of families, the poverty status of working mothers and their families, mothers as sole or primary earners, and unpaid caregiving and household responsibilities. [...]

By |2016-06-24T19:24:51+00:00June 24th, 2016|Features, The Buzz|Comments Off on Working Mothers Issue Brief

The United State of Women Summit

There’s a lot that’s been done by and for women and girls, but there’s still plenty to do. Convened by the White House, this Summit will rally all of us together to celebrate what we’ve achieved, and how we’re going to take action moving forward. Covering key gender equality issues, [...]

By |2016-06-13T22:04:49+00:00June 13th, 2016|The Buzz|Comments Off on The United State of Women Summit

Geena Davis and her quiet role in gender equality

Source: Bizwomen, Pacific Business News. Courtesy YWCA of Greater CincinnatiActress Geena Davis has been playing a pivotal role in pushing for gender equality in children's programming. You may know Geena Davis from her roles in "Thelma & Louise" or “A League of Their Own" but for a long time, she's [...]

By |2016-05-06T01:25:57+00:00May 6th, 2016|Features, The Buzz|Comments Off on Geena Davis and her quiet role in gender equality

Equal Pay Day 2016

Source: U.S. Dept. of Labor Women's Bureau.The Gender Wage Gap: Exploring the EvidenceToday we recognize Equal Pay Day, which marks how far into the current year women must work to earn what men earned the previous year. Women still earn only 79 cents to the man’s dollar and women of [...]

By |2016-04-12T20:00:59+00:00April 12th, 2016|equal pay, Features, The Buzz|Comments Off on Equal Pay Day 2016

Why today matters for women’s history

Source: The White House.The White House, WashingtonOne day in 1917, a dozen women gathered in front of the White House to stage a silent protest for women’s right to vote. Women suffragists picketing in front of the White House. Spectators yelled at them, kicked them, and spit on them. They [...]

By |2016-04-12T19:55:34+00:00April 12th, 2016|equal pay, Features, The Buzz|Comments Off on Why today matters for women’s history

5 Points to Bring Up to Win an Argument about the Gender Wage Gap

by Heidi Hartmann, Ph.D., Barbara Gault, Ph.D., and Ariane Hegewisch.  Source: Institute for Women's Policy Research.The 79 percent wage ratio figure, the most commonly used figure to measure the gender wage gap in the United States, is often derided as misleading, a myth, or worst of all, a lie. In [...]

By |2016-04-12T19:47:43+00:00April 12th, 2016|equal pay, Features, The Buzz|Comments Off on 5 Points to Bring Up to Win an Argument about the Gender Wage Gap
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