Pay women more if you want to reduce poverty (February 25th, 2016)
If working women were paid the same amount as their [...]
If working women were paid the same amount as their [...]
A new report, released in advance of Super Tuesday, by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), finds that the gender wage gap costs women in the South $155.4 billion per year. Closing the wage gap would reduce relatively high poverty rate for working women in the southern United States by more than half. The Status of Women in the South is the first report to provide a comprehensive portrait of the status of women, particularly the status of women of color, in the southern states, grading each state on six different topic areas related to women’s economic, political, health, and social status.
There are a lot of reasons behind the pay gap. Some [...]
Here in America, sick leave is viewed as a perk. [...]
Here in America, sick leave is viewed as a perk. [...]
The most recent, and largest, state to take action is [...]
There are now 29 laws across the country at the [...]
Amid the swelling national conversation about income inequality comes a [...]
In 2013, Bill de Blasio campaigned for mayor on a [...]
Further evidence that pay transparency serves to reduce the gender [...]