By Alexis Charles According to research by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) and the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), Black women are tied for the highest participation in the labor force among all women. Also… Read more>>

By Jillian Berman African-American women on average need to work for one year and seven months to earn the same yearly wage as white men and July 31 serves as a reminder of that stark [...]

By William E. Spriggs Today, we commiserate Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. The gap between the earnings of black women and white men is so large that, essentially, up to today black women have been working for free. [...]

By Stephanie Ebbert Twenty-five years ago, women who chafed at the spectacle of an all-male Senate panel grilling Anita Hill over her allegations of sexual harassment rose up and entered the corridors of power. The media [...]

By Ben Christopher California boasts some of the toughest “fair pay” laws in the country—yet the average full-time working woman has been earning only 86 cents for every dollar earned by a man. A recent study concluded that gap won’t [...]

By N'dea Yancey-Bragg Although women make up roughly half the workforce, complete gender equity in the workplace is still a long way off. If current trends persist, on average women won't receive equal pay until 2059, and that [...]