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Dr. Hartmann Speaks on Existing Workplace Inequalities

Heidi Hartmann Speaks at DOL SymposiumIWPR President Heidi Hartmann, Ph.D., spoke at a symposium, "Different and Equal in the 21st Century Workplace," hosted by the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor. Dr. Hartmann's presentation focused on existing workplace inequalities, including the current gender wage gap. (Photo: Dr. Hartmann, with Women's Bureau Director Sara Manzano-Diaz, speaks at the Women's Bureau symposium in September. Photo courtesy of the Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor.)

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by Claudia Williams and Kevin Miller, Ph.D. (October 2011)

In Denver, 41 percent of the private-sector workforce, or 107,407 workers, lack access to paid sick days. In the present research, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) estimates the improvements in access to health care and health outcomes that Denver workers without paid sick days and their families would experience if they were to gain access to paid sick days.

 

The Gender Wage Gap: 2010
by Ariane Hegewisch and Claudia Williams (September 2011)

The ratio of women‟s and men‟s median annual earnings was 77.4 for full-time/year-round workers in 2010, essentially unchanged from 77.0 in 2009.

 

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