By Additional data from the Institute for Women's Policy Research noted that Florida could be the first state to close the wage gap in just 21 years (29 years for black women) and Wyoming the last state in 136 years (190 years for black women). Additionally, the [...]

By Alexis Charles According to research by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) and the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), Black women are tied for the highest participation in the labor force among all women. Also… Read more>>

By Jillian Berman African-American women on average need to work for one year and seven months to earn the same yearly wage as white men and July 31 serves as a reminder of that stark piece of trivia. Known as Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, [...]

By William E. Spriggs Today, we commiserate Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. The gap between the earnings of black women and white men is so large that, essentially, up to today black women have been working for free. Think of it as the modern-day equivalent of the constitutional [...]

By Stephanie Ebbert Twenty-five years ago, women who chafed at the spectacle of an all-male Senate panel grilling Anita Hill over her allegations of sexual harassment rose up and entered the corridors of power. The media dubbed it “The Year of the Woman,” a title that [...]

By Ben Christopher California boasts some of the toughest “fair pay” laws in the country—yet the average full-time working woman has been earning only 86 cents for every dollar earned by a man. A recent study concluded that gap won’t close before the year 2043. Two female lawmakers don’t intend [...]