Women’s dual role as workers, investors, and owners in the U.S. economy and as primary caretakers within most families constrains their opportunities and imposes barriers on sharing the gains of economic growth. The gender wage gap and occupational segregation by gender remain consistent features of the economy. Equitable Growth digs deep to analyze the ways gender impacts economic outcomes and what solutions can begin to push back on the social forces that impede economic success regardless of one’s gender.
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Factsheet: What the research says about the economic impacts of reproductive care
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Beauty products for women of color and femme-identifying people of color perpetuate U.S. health and other socioeconomic inequalities
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African American men and the U.S. labor market during recessions and economic recoveries
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The economic imperative of enacting paid family leave across the United States
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Wages of power and wages of care: a source of increasing earnings inequality?
July 5, 2017
July 5, 2017
Venture capital’s gender gap is costly for firms and the economy
June 1, 2017
June 1, 2017
Seminar Series: Recognition for Group Work (Invitation only)
June 14, 2017 12:15PM - 1:30PM
Climbing the career ladder, switching jobs, and the gender wage gap in the United States
May 15, 2017
May 15, 2017
Some very worrying trends in U.S. lifetime income growth
May 4, 2017
May 4, 2017
Evidence of ongoing gender discrimination in the U.S. labor market
April 6, 2017
April 6, 2017
Do U.S. women choose low-paid occupations, or do low-paid occupations choose them?
April 3, 2017
April 3, 2017
Seminar Series: Parenthood and the gender wage gap (Invitation only)
March 15, 2017 12:15PM - 1:30PM
Local economic decline affects marriage and fertility rates, but in a surprising way
February 27, 2017
February 27, 2017
Can women’s “sagging middle” help explain the fall in U.S. labor force participation rates?
February 16, 2017
February 16, 2017
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