Why is the gender wage gap still so large? Why is there so much sexual harassment, labor market discrimination, and other forms of gender inequality? And what can be done to reduce gender inequalities … right now? At the fifth annual State of the Union Conference, the country's leading experts examined gender inequality in the United States.
State of the Union Report
Gender Identification – Aliya Saperstein, Stanford University
Education – Sean Reardon and Erin Fahle, Stanford University
Health – Mark Duggan and Valerie Scimeca, Stanford University
Employment – Melissa Kearney and Katharine Abraham, University of Maryland
Earnings – Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley
Poverty – Luke Shaefer, University of Michigan; Marybeth Mattingly, Stanford University; Kathryn Edin, Princeton University
Safety Net – Linda Burton and Whitney Welsh, Duke University; Marybeth Mattingly and Juan Pedroza, Stanford University
Occupational Segregation – Kim Weeden, Cornell University, and Dafna Gelbgiser, Facebook
Discrimination – David Pedulla, Stanford University
Sexual Harassment – Amy Blackstone, University of Maine; Heather McLaughlin, Oklahoma State University; Christopher Uggen, University of Minnesota
Networks – Adina Sterling, Stanford University
Policy – Shelley Correll and Marianne Cooper, Stanford University
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For more information about The State of the Union on Poverty and Inequality, read our past reports:
- 2018 State of the Union
- 2017 State of the Union
- 2016 State of the Union
- 2015 State of the States
- 2014 State of the Union
Hosted by the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and the Clayman Institute for Gender Research.