By Noam Scheiber Others have argued that the impact of paid sick leave extends well beyond the direct beneficiaries by limiting the spread of disease. There is evidence, for example, that a substantial number of the private-sector workers who became ill during the H1N1 pandemic [...]

By Mollie Reilly “As California continues to grow and diversify, large segments of our state’s minority population are facing devastating economic inequality,” Hall said in a statement upon the bill’s passage in the legislature. “No employee should be denied an equal wage for an equal [...]

By Jared Lindzon In spite of the progress that is being made, however, the number of S&P 500 companies with female CEOs only grew by an average rate of 1.1 each year since 2009, according to S&P Capital IQ. The materials and telecoms sectors remain [...]

By Elissa Strauss According to a new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, 55 percent of four-year public campuses had onsite child care centers in 2003. Today, less than half do. The number of onsite child care centers at community colleges is also [...]

By Laura Santhanam Today, women hold less than one out of five STEM-related patents, and it’s been slow growth just to make it that far. Still, that’s a huge rise since 1977 when women were awarded only 3 percent of all patents. By 1996, that [...]

By Dayna Evans This new information is backed up by another study by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research that found black women’s and Native American women’s wages saw the steadiest decline over the past ten years. White women’s wages decreased only .3 percent over [...]