The New Hampshire Women’s Policy Institute’s mission is to generate research, encourage policy discussions and educate the public in order to inform decision making and promote the value of women in New Hampshire.
What's New

»New Update on Working Women’s Economic Status, click here to download.

»The Institute presents NH 2018 to business leaders, click here for the presentation.

»Older Women’s Economic Security, click here for our presentation to legislators.

»New fact sheet on income disparity, click here to download.

»Transportation for Low Income Women. Click here for the brief or the press release.

»Our new report Breaking Through the Granite Ceiling in Corporate New Hampshire on women in top business leadership; click here for the report or press release.

»New fact sheet on older women, describing their risk of poverty and need for financial education. Click here to read the fact sheet.

»Women and the Livable Wage, August 2007: click here for the press release or the brief.

»Check out NHWPI's recent press coverage: click here.

»Check out NHWPI's recent presentations: click here.

Quick Facts

» Women made up 40% of the full-time workforce in New Hampshire in 2004.

» From 2002 to 2004, full-time working women earned an average of 71 cents for every dollar earned by men in New Hampshire.

» 57% of all full-time New Hampshire workers earning less than $25,000 in 2004 were women.