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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Some very worrying trends in U.S. lifetime income growth
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Seminar Series: Parenthood and the gender wage gap (Invitation only)
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Can women’s “sagging middle” help explain the fall in U.S. labor force participation rates?
February 16, 2017
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The vast wealth gap between black and white women in the United States
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January 31, 2017
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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