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 [...]

By Jillian Berman The report comes as the tech industry has been grappling with the question of gender equality. A memo by a male Google engineer who claimed women weren’t suited to tech jobs because of their personalities touched off a firestorm of debate in 2017. [...]

By JIM TANKERSLEY and NOAM SCHEIBER “I don’t think it’s because we don’t know what is implicit bias. We know,” said Rhonda Sharpe, the president of the National Economics Association, which was founded to promote the professional development of minorities in the field. “It’s whether we stand up [...]

By Courtney Connley (@ClassicalyCourt) An E! spokesperson denied claims that Kennedy was paid more in a statement to People and said, "E! compensates employees fairly and appropriately based on their roles, regardless of gender." According to the Institute for Women's Policy Research, women are still paid 20 [...]