As Americans, we tend to think we have the best of everything at our fingertips. But a new “glass ceiling index” shows that just isn’t the case when it comes to women in the workplace. [...]

College students are ineligible for the state food assistance program, formerly known as food stamps, unless they work at least 20 hours a week, have a child under 6 or meet certain other requirements. The [...]

The gender wage gap actually widened last year, according to a new analysis from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) based on weekly data for full-time workers. The ratio of median weekly earnings for [...]

Wages play an important role in those statistics; when you earn less, paying off loans is harder. Student loan debt, meanwhile, tends to take up a larger share of women’s income than it does men’s, [...]

"Women tend to do well where the industries that dominate that state are white-collar industries, whether it’s insurance, or healthcare or education or government," said Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research in [...]

"Women tend to do well where the industries that dominate that state are white-collar industries, whether it’s insurance, or healthcare or education or government," said Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research in [...]