By Caroline Kitchener Across the United States, 34-year-old women, on average, make between 10 and 18 percent less than 34-year-old men. That gap isn’t surprising—it’s actually been slowly improving in recent years. What’s striking is that, when you only consider Ivy League graduates, the gap [...]

By Johnny Magdeleno If you’re a mother of two and working a part-time job, finding the time to train for a better-paying, more demanding career can seem near impossible. But career training programs throughout the country are beginning to understand that offering support services that [...]

By Sarah Frostenson Heidi Hartmann, the president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), agreed that the data squared with trends she’s observed. "When you look at the data on who has paid leave and who doesn’t, it’s the highest-income workers who get the most [...]

"'I’ve always thought that women were reacting to the lack of paid family leave and child care,' said Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. They found it too much trouble to work, she said, 'so they were dropping out.' Even though [...]

"On average, American women made nearly 80 cents on every dollar that men earned as of 2015, with women of color’s paychecks falling even farther behind. Before the Equal Pay Act passed, women nationwide made around 61 cents on every dollar. If pay equity progress [...]

By Sara Davis "The tech and marketing industries have been pioneers for advancing the workplace, from better benefits and diversity advancement, to creating technologies that change the way we work. The real question is, can these industries be the driving force for equal pay for women [...]