As Obama Spotlights Gender Gap in Wages, His Own Payroll Draws Scrutiny
This week, Democrats in the Senate are to begin considering [...]
This week, Democrats in the Senate are to begin considering [...]
"The wage gap between men and women has hardly budged [...]
"What the researchers found was that the women in the [...]
As a general rule, Americans are bred to be hard [...]
According to a new analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), women earn less than men in almost all of the 112 occupations for which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes weekly full-time earnings data for both women and men.
Despite improving since the 1960s, the gender pay gap is [...]
Why do women still earn less than men? No seriously, [...]
Why do women still earn less than men? No seriously, [...]
The progress in closing the gender wage gap has stalled [...]
According to an Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the March employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), women gained 99,000 jobs in February, while men gained 76,000 for a net increase of 175,000 jobs in February. As of February, men have regained 82 percent (4.9 million) of the jobs they lost during the recession, whereas women hold 17 percent more jobs on payrolls (68.0 million) than at their previous employment peak in March 2008 (67.6 million), more than recovering all the jobs they lost in the downturn.