Topic Gender

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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In Conversation with Lee Badgett

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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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Gender wage inequality

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Climbing the career ladder, switching jobs, and the gender wage gap in the United States

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Changes in U.S. lifetime income inequality

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Some very worrying trends in U.S. lifetime income growth

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Evidence of ongoing gender discrimination in the U.S. labor market

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Do U.S. women choose low-paid occupations, or do low-paid occupations choose them?

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Seminar Series: Parenthood and the gender wage gap (Invitation only)

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Local economic decline affects marriage and fertility rates, but in a surprising way

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Can women’s “sagging middle” help explain the fall in U.S. labor force participation rates?

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Care work as a team sport

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The vast wealth gap between black and white women in the United States

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Many of the fastest growing jobs in the United States are missing men

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Just deserts? Earnings inequality and bargaining power in the U.S. economy

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