03/30/2017

Report Finds Gender Wage Gap Closing at Sluggish Rate

This is not just a problem in for-profit workplaces

For every dollar a white male makes, the average woman makes 82 cents—and that rate hasn’t been growing fast enough in recent years, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. It’s a problem that lingers in the nonprofit space, too.

The problems with the pay gap are clear, no matter the industry—but they feel a little more troubling for nonprofits.

Recently, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research revealed that women in the workforce receive just 82 percent of the pay that men do in similar positions, with the totals more pronounced when race is a factor.

The picture is made all the more troublesome when you compare the rate of growth for the gender pay gap, as IWPR did in its recent fact sheet on pay in 2016.

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