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*Title:* Undervalued and Underpaid in America: Women in Low-Wage, Female-Dominated Jobs

*Author:* Elyse Shaw, Ariane Hegewisch, Emma Williams-Baron, Barbara Gault, Ph.D.

*Source:* Institute for Women’s Policy Research

*Date:* Dec 20, 2016

*Summary: *This report investigates women’s experiences in large, low-wage, growing, female-dominated occupations, comparing demographic data and indicators of economic security between 1994 and 2014, and projecting growth rates to 2024. It focuses on 22 occupations fitting these criteria, and analyzes these jobs’ size and wages, racial and ethnic composition, share of parents and single parents, workers’ educational attainment, poverty rates and reliance on social assistance programs, and documents, where possible, how these indicators have changed between 1994 and 2014.

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