by Jamal Watson The new initiative was announced on Wednesday by Dr. Jill Biden, the former Second Lady who is also an English professor at Northern Virginia Community College. “Teaching isn’t just what I do,” Biden told [...]

by Sarah Gantz, Paying those bills can be challenging for working women who had been counting on parental leave after giving birth. The United States does not have a standard parental leave policy, which means [...]

By Jesse Coburn and Matt Clark “Whenever you’re looking at issues like this, you cannot discount the possibility of discrimination,” Bellone said. "There may be discriminatory impact without there even being an intent.” Chandra Childers, [...]

By ALIA WONG The trend is “odd,” Ingersoll and his co-authors—all education scholars and most of them former classroom teachers—write in the report. Generally speaking, starting in the 1970s the country’s occupations witnessed a significant decline in gender segregation [...]

By Janet Zaretsky Women are underrepresented at every level of business, though they make up more than half of college students today. But despite this knowledge, we have yet to move the needle significantly. That [...]

BY KARRIGAN MONK The study, “The Status of Women in North Carolina: Employment and Earnings,” gave the state a C rating, an improvement from the D rating of the original “The Status of Women in the [...]