By Jillian Berman For many college students, sitting through a math class at 8 a.m. can be a challenge. But one morning a few years ago, Amber Angel encountered an obstacle during that early-morning lesson [...]

By Rhaina Cohen The crux of this argument is correct. Occupational segregation persists , and the fields that women dominate tend to pay less. Indeed, in a recent study, the Cornell University economists Francine Blau [...]

By Rhaina Cohen The crux of this argument is correct. Occupational segregation persists , and the fields that women dominate tend to pay less. Indeed, in a recent study, the Cornell University economists Francine Blau [...]

By Houston Chronicle Editorial Board The gender gap is another barrier. Women hold only one-third of positions in growing middle-skill jobs that pay at least $35,000 or as much as $102,000 per year, according to [...]

Heidi Hartmann , an economist, is the president and founder of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Updated August 15, 2016, 3:20 AM The new Act to Establish Pay Equity in Massachusetts is similar to [...]

By Michelle Chen Unless women are somehow only 25 percent as creative as men these days, we have a big problem with our so-called “innovation age.” In one clear measure of who takes the credit [...]