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Title: Women's Access to Quality Jobs in Mississippi

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: To provide economic security and stability work should pay a living wage, provide workers with sufficient hours of work (full-time, full-year employment), and provide access to health insurance, a pension, and the flexibility for working women and men to balance work and family. To capture the extent to which women’s jobs in Mississippi meet these criteria, IWPR created a job quality index and applied it to the jobs held by Mississippi’s working women and men. The results show that just 3 percent of Mississippians work in jobs that meet the criteria for ‘best’ job quality occupations, and men are more likely than women to be in these ‘best’ quality jobs whereas women are more likely than men to be in the ‘worst’ quality jobs. Median earnings for all workers in Mississippi are $15,224 below the minimum needed in Mississippi to provide economic security for a family with two small children according to one measure of basic needs—the Basic Economic Security Tables (BEST). Women’s median earnings are even lower than the earnings for all workers with Black and Hispanic women having particularly low earnings.

Url: https://iwpr.org/publications/womens-access-quality-jobs-mississippi-full-report/

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Authors: Childers, Chandra

Publisher: Institute for Women’s Policy Research and the Women’s Foundation of Mississippi

Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS, IPUMS Health Surveys - NHIS

Topics: Gender, Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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