Diversity and Sustainability in Business

IPUMS USA collects, preserves and harmonizes U.S. census microdata and provides easy access to this data with enhanced documentation. Data includes decennial censuses from 1790 to 2010 and American Community Surveys (ACS) from 2000 to the present.

A report from the National Conference of State Legislators on the current state of the gender pay gap in 2021 as impacted by COVID-19 along with a summary of historical state actions and more recent legislation currently under consideration.

A report from the National Conference of State Legislators providing a history of equal pay legislation and a summary of current equal pay protections in state laws.

This report from compensation aggregating database, PayScale, examines the difference in median earnings of men and women overall, as well as by race, marital and family status, across industry, job family, degree level, generation, management status, job level, state, and metropolitan statistical area.

This report from PayScale examines the controlled racial wage gap (RWG) is a comparison of pay between white men and people of color who have the same job and qualifications.

Published by the US Census Bureau May 2019
This article compares median earnings differences between men and women workers by age, education, and occupation. Statistics in this story are from the Detailed Occupation and Education Table Package and an analysis of 2017 data from the American Community Survey.

Published 2021
A deeper look at the data on underrepresented leaders and the capital they have raised. This report compares investments & impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic by location and vertical, as well as spotlighted companies that are classified as minority-led, women-founded, or women-led.

Access to an hour long panel presentation hosted by Pitchbook News on the evolving role that investors play in addressing issues relating to the accessibility to venture capitalists and their capital and networks, supposed unqualified diverse talent pipelines and having equitable representation across the ecosystem.

Published by the Harvard Business Review. This article argues that there exists gender and racial stereotyping, unconscious bias, systemic economic barriers, and Silicon Valley’s preference for serial entrepreneurs within venture capital and provides three changes to operating practices to commit to broader diversity with VC funds.

Published in 2019 by The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. This report characterizes the ownership diversity of U.S. asset managers; examines the impact of diverse ownership on financial performance; and studies the composition of institutional investors that invest with diverse managers.

Published by Deloitte in 2020. This study & results dashboard provides critical data on the workforce at VC firms and what firms are doing to enhance diversity & inclusion.

Published by MnDEED December 2018
This articles examines gender and race/ethnicity-based earnings gaps that exist even after accounting for field of study and choice of occupation.

Published by MnDEED September 2018
This article examines the economic status of racial and ethnic minority women in Minnesota, focusing on educational attainment and labor market outcomes. This analysis compares the economic status of minority women with white women and men.

This article examines educational attainment and returns by gender in Minnesota. The most recent five-year American Community Survey (ACS) micro-data (2012 to 2016) for Minnesota is used for the analysis.

Published by MnDEED December 2017
This article examines health care and social assistance jobs in Minnesota, an industry sector where women far outnumber men and where we might expect little or no gender pay gap.

Published by the Legislative Office on the Economic Status of Women (OESW) February 2016
This report describes the laws, their implementation and results, and historical background
as well as basic personnel concepts such as the classification of jobs, job evaluation, compensation practices, and discusses the average wage gap between men and women workers, particularly as it relates to public employees.