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 [...]

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 [...]