Handsel represents one of 3.9 million student-parents pursuing post-secondary education. But according to a new report from the Institute for Women's Policy Research, only five percent of their child care is supplied on campus. In [...]

"A large part of the problem is that women are disproportionately represented in state and local governments—and that is where many jobs are being cut now. 'It was a very broad and deep recession for [...]

"Even among chief executive officers, women make just over 72% of what male counterparts earn in weekly salary, according to data recently released by The Institute for Women's Policy Research to coincide with Equal Pay [...]

1. Women earn less because they enter low-paying fields and become moms. While it’s true that men tend to enter higher-paying fields than women, that difference alone does not explain the gender wage gap. Even [...]

"Do men conspire to keep the pay of the women at low levels? No evidence indicates that this has occurred. What about the theory that senior management purposely keeps men's pay higher? There is little [...]

"Willetts is wrong to attribute the UK's high unemployment rate to women's education gains, said Heidi Hartmann, president of the Washington-based Institute for Women's Policy Research. But he's right about well-educated women pairing off with [...]