At Current Rate, Women Inventors Will Not Reach Parity in Patenting Until 2092

New IWPR briefing paper reports that women make up only 7.7 percent of primary inventors who hold patents.

Pathways to Equity: Narrowing the Wage Gap by Improving Women’s Access to Good Middle-Skill Jobs

Half of the gender wage gap is due to women working in different occupations and sectors than men. Improving women’s access to good middle-skill jobs can help close the wage gap and improve women’s economic security. IWPR's Pathways to Equity Initiative, launched with a new report and website, explores job changes that can improve women’s economic standing and meet employers’ demands for skilled workers.

IWPR's new The Status of Women in the South is the first report to provide a comprehensive portrait of the status of women, particularly the status of women of color, in the southern states, grading each state on six different topic areas related to women’s economic, political, health, and social status. The report finds that closing the gender wage gap would reduce the poverty rate for working women in the southern U.S. by more than half and add $155.4 billion per year to the South's economy.

Video: Changing the Conversation on Women’s Status

IWPR’s brand new video shows the incredible amount of media attention and conversation the Institute sparks through its credible, rigorous research on the status of women in the United States.

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