Despite improving since the 1960s, the gender pay gap is still quite wide in the United States. Moreover, the gap seems to have leveled off in recent years, remaining at a substantial level. In 2012, [...]

Why do women still earn less than men? No seriously, why? The gender wage gap has been a problem ever since  I Love Lucy was a primetime hit, and we still don't have a complete [...]

Why do women still earn less than men? No seriously, why? The gender wage gap has been a problem ever since  I Love Lucy was a primetime hit, and we still don't have a complete [...]

The progress in closing the gender wage gap has  stalled -- but not for the reasons you might think. The problem is not that women’s earnings aren’t keeping pace with men’s. In fact, over the [...]

In 2012, 61 percent of private sector workers older than 18 had access to paid sick days, an increase from 57 percent in 2009, according to a new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy [...]

[...] According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research , women’s median weekly wages for full-time work were 81 percent of men’s in 2012. Female entrepreneurs who graduated from the Goldman program had entered it [...]