by Carolyn Presutti Wage gap Despite improvements in some areas, American women still lag behind their male counterparts in earnings. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the final quarter of 2017, female workers on average were paid $769 per week versus $946 for male [...]

By Alex Baumhardt and Emily Hanford According to a report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), the number of single mothers in college more than doubled between 2000 and 2012, to nearly 2.1 million students. “There are more single mothers than there used to be,” says [...]

By Laura Sanicola Ariane Hegewisch, study director at the Institute for Women's Policy Research, says that while men and women are receiving nearly equal pay at Citigroup respective to their positions, the analysis didn't address female representation at the company. "It's important that the company [...]

By Sian Conway he Institute for Women’s Policy Research found that women are less likely than men to support cuts to environmental spending, and are less sympathetic to business when it comes to environmental regulation. For whatever reasons, sustainability seems to be more appealing to women. But [...]

By Alastair Jamieson Yet even where positive protection doesn’t exist, greater transparency is helping women to stake their claim for equal pay through measures forbidding employers from asking the salary history of job applicants. Women typically enter the job market in lower-paid roles, “which means each [...]

By Dominic Rush The retail sector has been the biggest loser of jobs for the last two years in a row in the US, as thousands of stores closed as shoppers moved online. It remains one of the US’s largest employers, providing 15.8m jobs, but the reordering of [...]