By Nicole Lyn Pesce So much for the “mother” of invention. There’s a gaping gender gap in U.S. patents filed each year, with just 8% of them counting a woman as the primary inventor, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Worse, they predict that women [...]

By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel A survey of nearly 100 administrators at campus child care centers found that 95 percent of centers at two- and four-year colleges maintained a waiting list with an average of 82 children, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. And that’s if [...]

By Sheelah Kolhatkar When it comes to equal pay, for example, Antilla pointed to a recent study by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research on the gender pay gap across different industries, which listed financial occupations as among the worst; the job of personal financial [...]

Narrowing the gender wage gap Women earn 20 percent less than men performing the same job, CNBC reported, citing the Institute for Women’s Policy Research; that’s about $0.76 for every dollar men make. Women of color tend to be paid even less, with African American [...]

By Danielle Paquette The largest two categories of America's fastest-growing jobs offer some of the country’s lowest wages and weakest benefits. Over the next ten years, analysts expect to see 1.2 million more jobs for home health and personal care aides, according to a report [...]

By Jillian Berman Over the past several years, colleges have been accused of failing to addressstudents’ claims of sexual harassment or violence head on, treating the complaints as public relations problems instead of campus climate issues or ignoring them altogether. That type of approach from colleges can suggest [...]