By Andrew Hiyama And neither child care nor higher education are uncostly. With what little time they have between the two commitments, student-parents often must work just to keep themselves afloat; according to reports from Young Invincibles, 25 percent of student-parents live below the federal poverty line, and [...]

By Josie Rhodes Cook On Wednesday, House Republicans voted against an amendment that would protect funding for the collection of data on pay by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The EEOC under President Obama created a requirement that made it so private employers with more than 100 [...]

By Anusha Kankure If the wage gap were to be eradicated, New Hampshire women would gain improved access to essentials such as food and shelter for 14 months, which would vastly improve life for the 24 percent of Granite State women living below the poverty [...]

by Stacey Leasca “Women are highly invested in their education — more so than men — and this should lead to a relative increase in their earnings,” Ariane Hegewisch, program director for employment and earnings at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, wrote in an analysis. “The [...]

By Courtney Connley Despite earning more college and graduate degrees than their male counterparts, the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) reports that women still earn 80 cents for every dollar earned by a man. According to data from IWPR, if the same pace towards pay equality continues, [...]

By Heidi Hartmann and Gina Chirillo It has to be taken as a sign of progress that the presidential candidates of both major political parties talked about providing child care and paid family leave in their campaigns, for the first time in U.S. history. But [...]