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. [...]

By Christina Cauterucci This new congressional bill could be particularly important for women of color, whose average  adjusted-for-inflation earnings declined between 2004 and 2014, according to a new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. The wage gap between men and women, on average, has [...]