Women, especially Black women, are losing the majority of jobs in the coronavirus downturn. This is unprecedented. By Emily Peck Why Women? The slowdown in 2008 was a “production recession,” explained C. Nicole Mason, president and [...]

By Chris Isidore Many segments where women make up a majority of workers have already seen job losses. While hospitals aren't cutting staff, for example, some 40,000 jobs have been lost in the offices of [...]

By KARA VOGHT The same groups that never recovered from the last recession are facing a new nightmare. Beyond wages, the wealth of those populations also took a tremendous hit during the Great Recession. Both [...]

By Max Zahn with Andy Serwer Domestic violence, an issue that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says affects one in four women over their lifetimes, has become an even more pressing concern as stay-at-home orders force hundreds of [...]

By Austa Somvichian-Clausen The return of springtime in the United States means a few things: taxes are due, flowers are springing, the observation of Easter approaches and Equal Pay Day is here. Only, with the [...]

BY EMMA HINCHLIFFE Every spring, the United States marks Equal Pay Day, the date that marks the number of extra months into the new year that women must work in order to earn what men [...]