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 [...]

By Vanessa Hua Half the gender wage gap is due to women working in different kinds of occupations than men, and a new initiative by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research addresses these discrepancies in an effort to lift women out of poverty and reduce [...]

By Bryce Covert Being in a union is particularly helpful for marginalized groups that tend to be paid less than white men. A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research found that black union workers earn wages that are, on average, 16.4 [...]

By Steven Musil Using data from 4,600 workers in Australia, the only country that collects information about requested raises, the study ( PDF ) found that men got raises 20 percent of the time they asked, versus 16 percent for women who work the same [...]

By Jillian Berman The findings add to the growing body of evidence that women are at a disadvantage salary-wise right out of the gate, even before  many of the oft-cited culprits of the gender wage gap -- for example, taking time off to have and [...]

By Melissa Etehad and Jeremy C.F. Lin Roger-Mark De Souza, who leads programs on reproductive and maternal health at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a Washington-based think tank, says part of the reason for Europe’s history of offering paid maternal leave dates back to World War II. [...]