Women's rights activist Lilly Ledbetter, namesake of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, addresses delegates during the first day of the Democratic national convention in Charlotte. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters At the polls Tuesday, some voters [...]

Women's rights activist Lilly Ledbetter, namesake of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, addresses delegates during the first day of the Democratic national convention in Charlotte. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters At the polls Tuesday, some voters [...]

Women voters are considered key to the election results. Neither party has a lock on the outcome in one of the tightest races in history. Yet, women's issues were never mentioned in the first presidential [...]

Women have made tremendous gains in education, employment and earnings in the past 50 years, but there is still a persistent gender pay gap. Even young working women continue to lag behind men. Among recent [...]

In 2011, men working full-time earned a median of $48,765. Women earned just $38,373. That difference of more than $10,000 only tells part of the story of the continuing gender wage gap in this country. [...]

"According to economist Heidi Hartmann, President of the Washington-based Institute for Women’s Policy Research, if the gender wage gap were eliminated today, the stimulus effect would grow the U.S. economy by at least 3 to [...]