MarketWatch, February 25, 2016: Pay women more if you want to reduce poverty
“Dramatically reducing poverty could be as simple as paying women the same amount of money as men. There’s one problem: Taking that step isn’t all that simple. If working women were paid the same amount as their male counterparts living in the same place, working the same hours, with the same education, their poverty rate would drop by more than half in 28 states, according to an analysis released Thursday by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, a think tank focused on women’s economic issues.”