If working women were paid the same amount as their male counterparts living in the same place, working the same hours, with the same education, their poverty rate would drop by more than half in [...]

There are a lot of reasons behind the pay gap. Some of the fields dominated by men, such as finance, tend to pay more. Women may be prone to spending more time out of the workforce than men [...]

Here in America, sick leave is viewed as a perk. That means that lower-income workers are the ones most likely to get none. And that essentially makes paid sick leave a public health issue. Low-paid [...]

Here in America, sick leave is viewed as a perk. That means that lower-income workers are the ones most likely to get none. And that essentially makes paid sick leave a public health issue. Low-paid [...]

The most recent, and largest, state to take action is California, where the Fair Pay Act took effect on Jan. 1. There are good reasons to bolster protections for workers who talk about their pay [...]

There are now 29 laws across the country at the city and state level guaranteeing workers the ability to take paid sick days. That’s a huge change from a decade ago, when San Francisco was [...]