By De Elizabeth While Emilia certainly isn't wrong about the unfair inequities between men and women in Hollywood (and in the workplace in general), it's generally not a good idea to compare anything to racism. For starters, Emilia (a white woman) cannot know what it's like [...]

By Claire Suddath There are two ways of looking at the wage gap. The first is to take a bird’s-eye view. The most significant reason women still make 80 percent of what men do is that they’re clustered into lower-paying fields, as seen at Citigroup. [...]

By Martha C. White Outdated gender roles are to blame, experts say. “I think the reason flexibility appears to be more important for women than it does to men relative to making money is probably in part because women have such greater responsibility of caregiving,” [...]

By Mankaprr Conteh Data agrees with him. A recent report compiled by the Institute for Women's Policy Research and released by the National Domestic Workers Alliance has found that despite our significant political participation, educational advancement, and entrepreneurial initiative, Black women in the United States [...]

By Vanessa Williams The report, which draws heavily on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, was prepared by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, a nonprofit organization affiliated with George Washington University. The National Domestic Workers Alliance, which released the study last week, made a [...]

By Sarah Lazare Just how true this is is made clear in a new report released by the NDWA in partnership with the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. The study finds that Black women in the United States are disproportionately segregated into low-wage service and [...]