By Catherine Clifford The compensation gap between female and male partners at law firms in the U.S. is 44 percent. That's according to the most recent compensation survey of big law firm partners by the legal [...]

By Valentina Zarya This could help to explain why  female engineers are often relegated to doing managerial and secretarial tasks while their male peers do the “real” engineering work (and get the credit for it). The [...]

By Noam Scheiber Others have argued that the impact of paid sick leave extends well beyond the direct beneficiaries by limiting the spread of disease. There is evidence, for example, that a substantial number of [...]

By Mollie Reilly “As California continues to grow and diversify, large segments of our state’s minority population are facing devastating economic inequality,” Hall said in a statement upon the bill’s passage in the legislature. “No [...]

By Jared Lindzon In spite of the progress that is being made, however, the number of S&P 500 companies with female CEOs only grew by an average rate of 1.1 each year since 2009, according [...]

By Elissa Strauss According to a new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, 55 percent of four-year public campuses had onsite child care centers in 2003. Today, less than half do. The number [...]