Alaa Milbes American cities continue to spend billions each year to buy major equipment, such as buses and railcars for public transportation systems. This spending has the potential to support tens of thousands of good manufacturing jobs. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, there [...]

The Women’s Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, which focuses on issues of economic self-sufficiency for women, also provides scholarships for moms to pay for childcare while they’re in the training.  (Women in job training programs complete their training in far higher numbers if they [...]

By Valentina Zarya This year's national Lean In initiative is based on the successful campaign spearheaded last year by Lean In's Washington D.C. chapter, which took place on April 12th and in which the capital's businesses offered discounts of 21% to women and women's advocates. Because [...]

4. We've come a long way, but progress has stalled After strong progress shrinking the pay disparity in the 1980s and 1990s, the improvement has slowed recently. "Progress has really slowed down and for the last decade or so, change has been modular," said Ariane [...]

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By Lindsey Jacboson In 2015, full-time/year-round female workers earned 79.6 percent of what their male counterparts made, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). The gap is greater for black and Hispanic women. There has not been a statistically significant annual increase in [...]