FACT SHEET | A look at the wage gap for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women by ethnic subgroup, and what that gap means for them and their families.
What’s the Wage Gap in the States?
REPORT | Overall, women in the United States are paid 75 cents for every dollar paid to men, and that gap is widest for women of color. This persistent, pervasive wage gap is driven in part by gender and racial discrimination, workplace harassment, job segregation and...
The Wage Gap #IRL (In Real Life) for Women of Color: Groceries, Child Care and Student Loans
FACT SHEET | Women of color in the United States experience the nation's persistent and pervasive gender wage gap most severely. U.S. Census Bureau data reveal the size of that gap by race.
An Analysis of the Gender Wage Gap by Congressional District
FACT SHEET | An analysis of the Gender Wage Gap by Congressional District
Women Are Facing A Crisis In This Country. That’s Bad News for Business.
FACT SHEET | Complex problems resulting from decades of systemic racism and sexism, compounded by attacks on abortion care and health care, have created barriers for women – particularly mothers – from fully participating in the workforce.
Native American Women and the Wage Gap
FACT SHEET | The wages of Native women are driven down by a number of factors that they are likely to encounter in the workplace and labor market, including gender and racial discrimination, workplace harassment, job segregation and a lack of workplace policies that...
Black Women and the Care Agenda: Investing in Care Priorities Advances Gender and Racial Justice
ISSUE BRIEF | Black women are family caregivers – and they need flexibility and economic supports to make the best decisions for themselves and their families
Disabled Women and the Wage Gap
ISSUE BRIEF | Disabled women workers overall are only paid 50 cents for every dollar a nondisabled man makes, due to a long legacy of ableism and discrimination.
Project 2025 Threatens Women and Families’ Health and Freedom
INFOGRAPHIC | Project 2025, a 900+ page document created by the Heritage Foundation, serves as a playbook to systematically dismantle the foundation of checks and balances that American democracy rests upon. If implemented, Project 2025 would serve as a draconian tool...
Paid Leave Will Help Close the Gender Wage Gap
FACT SHEET | The wage gap illustrates the high cost women are paying for our nation’s policy failure, including our lack of paid family and medical leave to support family caregiving, which is still most often performed by women.
Systems Transformation Guide to Disability Economic Justice: Income, Wealth Building and Basic Necessities
REPORT | This report addresses the barriers that disabled women face to building wealth, as well as put forth policy proposals that will help address these concerns.
Why Women Need the U.S. Department of Labor’s Independent Contractor Rule
FACT SHEET | Misclassification of workers as independent contractors deprives many women of critically important protections for equal pay and accommodations for breastfeeding.
America’s Women and the Wage Gap
FACT SHEET | Overall, women in the United States are paid 75 cents for every dollar paid to men. The wage gap widened in 2023 from 2022 – the first time this has happened since 2003. When women lose income, their economic security and that of their families is...
Economic and Health Justice for Women and Families in South Carolina
FACT SHEET | South Carolinian women need livable wages, supportive workplace policies such as paid family and medical leave, comprehensive health care access, and access to abortion – and they need a democracy that allows for their voices to be heard
How Data Collection Can Help Close the Wage Gap
ISSUE BRIEF | The wage gap impacts people's livelihoods, the future of work and the economy – and pay data collection is a critical tool for solving it.
What Policymakers Can Do on Pay Equity Data Collection to Help Close the Wage Gap
Data collection is at the forefront of many timely conversations involving women at work, and is being tracked by global news networks, job sites, and economic and academic researchers and advocates.
What Businesses Can Do on Pay Equity Data Collection to Help Close the Wage Gap
National Partnership for Women & Families analysis reveals that of companies on the Fortune 100 list in 2022, roughly two-thirds are already reporting wage gap data to the U.K.
The Paycheck Fairness Act: A Section-by-Section Summary
A section-by-section legislative summary of the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would combat pay discrimination that contributes to the gender wage gap.
The Paycheck Fairness Act
FACT SHEET | Enactment of the Paycheck Fairness Act would be a critical step forward in the fight for fair pay for women.
Gender and Geography of Higher-Income Workers
Nationally, 16.5 percent of full-time, year-round workers have earnings of $100,000 or more – an estimated 19.2 million people. Due to the gender wage gap, men are more likely than women to have earnings above this threshold: 20.6 percent of men (13.5 million) working...
