11 / 04 / 15 // Relevant News
OregonLive, November 4, 2015 Oregon doubles the national average when it comes to placing women in trades apprenticeship programs, but there is still a long way to go on the path to equality, advocates and government officials say. Overall numbers of female apprenticeships remain low, however, and a recent study by two Portland State University […]
Read More09 / 28 / 15 // Relevant News
Marie Claire, September 28, 2015 Last month, Intel announced a $5 million investment in Georgia Tech to increase the number of women and minorities studying computer science and engineering over the next five years. It’s only the latest example of a big-name university’s push to shrink the well-known gender and racial diversity gaps in STEM (science, tech, engineering, and math) studies. Similar efforts […]
Read More03 / 17 / 15 // Relevant News
FastCompany, March 17, 2015 New research examines the complexities in the gender wage gap. By Samantha Cole Movements need sound bites to spread widely. But in reality, the gender wage gap is much more complex than the single-figure “cents on the dollar” stat that is commonly used as shorthand for the problem. The recently released […]
Read MoreHalf 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.
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