By Emily Crockett The gender wage gap is real — not every woman makes 80 cents to the dollar of what every man makes, of course; that figure is a big-picture average of all full-time workers. But women still make men who have the same [...]

By Alessandra Potenza Wonder Women is a collection of stories of 25 women doctors, mathematicians, spies and forgers, writers, soldiers, inventors, and other pioneers in STEM, not just in the United States but all over the world. Maggs, a video game writer and author, made [...]

By Allassandra Malito There’s good reason why women in the NBC survey would be less likely to take a cut. Women were paid 79.6 cents on the dollar compared to men in 2015, barely changed from 78.6 cents on the dollar in 2015, according to [...]

By Danielle Paquette “It’s costing me money to do this,” she said, “but if I don’t fight for what’s right for me, who will?” Access to paid leave also cuts across racial lines. Since black and Hispanic families are twice as likely to be among [...]

By Madeline Farber As of 2015, women made 80 cents for every dollar a man earned—a discrepancy that represents a 20% wage gap. Though she has a white-collar job, Sweeney comes from a union family, she says—adding that she’s aware of the impact a strike can [...]