Ariane Hegewisch

Ariane Hegewisch is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, an independent research institute in Washington, DC.  Her research addresses earnings inequality, occupational segregation and the undervaluation of women’s work, workplace discrimination, and work-life policies. She leads IWPR’s work on women’s retention and advancement in construction and manufacturing. She is the co-chair of Equal Pay Today’s research committee, and is a frequent speaker and commentator on gender racial wage gaps.

Recent publications include A Future Worth Building: What Tradeswomen Say about the Change They Need in the Construction Industry,  Building a Better Future for Women in New Orleans Post-COVID-19: Opportunities in Skilled Trade and Technical Jobs, Here to Stay:  Black, Latina, and Afro-Latina Women in Construction Trades Apprenticeships and Employment, Paying Today and Tomorrow: Charting the Financial Costs of Workplace Sexual Harassment and Child Care Supports For The Construction Trades: Building and Sustaining Diversity in Oregon.

Hegewisch was a member of the 2015-2016 EEOC’s Select Taskforce on Workplace Harassment. She joined IWPR in 2008, and before then was a visiting scholar at the Center for WorkLife Law at UC Hastings School of Law. Prior to coming to the USA in 2001, she taught comparative European human resource management at Cranfield School of Management, a leading UK university business school. She began her career in local government in London as a policy advisor on sector strategies and women’s employment and training. She received a BSc Economics from the London School of Economics, and an MPhil Development Studies from the University of Sussex, UK. 

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