Women get a deal, men pay full price at New Orleans pop-up highlighting gender wage gap

November 12, 2015

What if we lived in a world where store prices actually reflected the gender wage gap?

Women Hold at Least 50% of Top Government Posts in These 6 Countries

November 9, 2015

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has added his country to the short—but distinguished—list.

Report: Men outnumber women in elected office in Bristol County, MA

November 5, 2015

By Kathleen McKiernan In Bristol County, Fall River had the lowest rate of women in elected office, at 19 percent. New Bedford fared somewhat better with women making up 26 percent, according to an informal analysis of nine Bristol County towns by the political science department at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Massachusetts ranked 24th […]

These Are The Biggest Work Challenges For Women Around The World

October 13, 2015

By Lydia Dishman We know that achieving parity is going to take a long time, especially when it will take the length of 10 journeys to Pluto to equal the time it would take to have women occupy the C-suite in half of the major businesses in the U.S. This is also due, in part, […]

Jennifer Lawrence: This is what men don’t think about when they negotiate their salary

October 13, 2015

By Danielle Paquette In 2014, women working full-time jobs made only 79 cents for every dollar earned by men, a difference of 21 percent. The disparities widen across racial lines: Black women made 64 cents and Hispanic women made 54 cents for every dollar earned by white men. A recent report from the Institute for […]

Women are more likely than men to go to college, but they still get paid less

October 10, 2015

College is one of the few ways for women to earn a good wage

Commentary: America’s gender pay gap is at a record low, but hold the celebration

September 22, 2015

Women’s wages have been stagnant for more than a decade, and the gap has remained at about $11,000-$12,000 since 2001.

Are Women the New Face of Organized Labor?

September 7, 2015

There’s evidence that women’s increasing prominence in unions is already influencing what workers demand at the bargaining table.

Why Union Members Are Better Off

September 7, 2015

According to a recent report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), while there is an overall 11.3 percent wage boost for being in a union, women get a much larger leg up.

Gender wage gap narrower among unionized workforce, figures show

August 26, 2015

New analysis of federal economic data suggests organized labor promotes workplace gender equity.