"Women are not getting their fair share of jobs in the latest economic recovery, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research reports. Their analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data for November showed a widening job [...]

After the worst economic downturn in nearly a century, men continue to earn more than women in 361 metropolitan areas in the country, an annual survey by the Census Bureau found. If current trends continue, [...]

After the worst economic downturn in nearly a century, men continue to earn more than women in 361 metropolitan areas in the country, an annual survey by the Census Bureau found. If current trends continue, [...]

"In America women have in fact made considerable progress in getting into a range of jobs that used to be male preserves, according to a recent paper by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, a [...]

"A difference of one percentage point in the overall poverty rate is no big deal. But the new Supplemental Poverty Measure , or S.P.M., developed by the Census Bureau , which yields the slightly higher [...]

"It goes back to 1963. A statistician named Mollie Orshansky, working for the Social Security Administration, was asked to come up with a mathematical equation for determining who was poor by government standards. Not even [...]