By Vanessa Hua Half the gender wage gap is due to women working in different kinds of occupations than men, and a new initiative by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research addresses these discrepancies in [...]

By Bryce Covert Being in a union is particularly helpful for marginalized groups that tend to be paid less than white men. A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research found that [...]

By Steven Musil Using data from 4,600 workers in Australia, the only country that collects information about requested raises, the study ( PDF ) found that men got raises 20 percent of the time they [...]

By Jillian Berman The findings add to the growing body of evidence that women are at a disadvantage salary-wise right out of the gate, even before  many of the oft-cited culprits of the gender wage [...]

By Melissa Etehad and Jeremy C.F. Lin Roger-Mark De Souza, who leads programs on reproductive and maternal health at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a Washington-based think tank, says part of the reason for Europe’s history of [...]

By Christina Cauterucci This new congressional bill could be particularly important for women of color, whose average  adjusted-for-inflation earnings declined between 2004 and 2014, according to a new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. [...]