By Krystal Hu Women are hit hardest Women and men may not feel the same level of pain in the retail apocalypse. In the past year, women lost jobs in the industry overall while men [...]

By Julia Carpenter Trucking, after all, is grueling work: long shifts, night hours and lots of solitary work. It's also a traditionally male-dominated industry — according to the Institute for Women's Policy Research, less than 5% [...]

By Ellie Mertens Inventorship outside the US is not much better, according to a 2017 WIPO report, 30.5% of international patent applications include at least one women inventor. It says that global gender parity in [...]

By Amanda Iacone Women in the U.S. earn 85 percent of what their male peers take home—an improvement from 81 percent the prior year. But the wage gap grows as workers age. Women 50 and older [...]

by Barbara Humpton It's unlikely we can close the nation's STEM gender gap without granting more degrees in these fields to moms and making college and careers work for them. Mothers of dependent children comprise [...]

By Julia Carpenter "If we think about office jobs — secretaries, receptionists — a lot of those things have been automated," says Chandra Childers, study director at the Institute for Women's Policy Research. "We're already [...]