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 [...]