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Job Training and Community College Administrators Say Supportive Services are Key to Program Completion, but are Not Adequately Funded

New survey of training providers finds that lack of child care seen as greatest unmet need for women clients, key reason many do not complete workforce development programs.

	Job Segregation Keeps 1 in 4 Working Women in Traditional Roles with Lowest Pay A new study by IWPR and Oxfam America finds that more than 1 in 4 employed women in the U.S. are concentrated in low-wage “women’s work”—such as teaching young children, cleaning, serving, and caring for elders—jobs that are done primarily by women, pay less than $15 per hour, and provide few benefits.

Job Segregation Keeps 1 in 4 Working Women in Traditional Roles with Lowest Pay

A new study by IWPR and Oxfam America finds that more than 1 in 4 employed women in the U.S. are concentrated in low-wage “women’s work”—such as teaching young children, cleaning, serving, and caring for elders—jobs that are done primarily by women, pay less than $15 per hour, and provide few benefits.

Girls and Young Women of Color: Where They Are in the United States

New analysis of regional demographics from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that more than two in five adult women of color in the United States—about 17.5 million—reside in the South, but concentrations of women of different racial and ethnic groups vary widely by region. The states with the largest concentration of Hispanic women, for instance, are primarily located in the Pacific and Mountain West regions, while the states with the largest concentration of Black women are in the South.

2016 Election Resources

View IWPR resources on women's earnings by race/ethnicity, the economic impact of equal pay by state, and the benefits of paid sick days and paid family leave.

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