By Emily Crockett First of all, researchers have found that about 40 percent of the gap can't be explained by factors like occupation, education, or experience. Discrimination — whether it's intentional or not, and whether it's on a systemic level or an individual one — [...]

 By Valentina Zarya 3. If women were paid as much as men, poverty among working single mothers would fall by a third or more. Equal pay isn’t just about fairness—for many women, it’s the difference between being able to provide for their families and not. [...]

By Dana Ford April 12 is a day most women would rather not celebrate. It's Equal Pay Day, and it's the day that, if you're a woman, your earnings have finally caught up with what men were paid the previous year. The good news is [...]

By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz “Women hold only a third of what are known as middle-skill jobs, a growing segment of the labor force that is considered a pathway out of poverty because the jobs require less than a bachelor's degree but are relatively well-paying at $35,000 to [...]

By Kelley Holland “Certainly, wage growth for women has stalled. The Institute for Women's Policy Research found that  women's real median weekly earnings were 81.1 percent of men's in 2015, down from 82.5 percent in 2014. "In the past ten years (2006 to 2015), the weekly [...]

By Laura Bates “Despite the fact that the AAUW and others have called for initiatives like salary audits, flexible working hours and the implementation of the  Paycheck Fairness Act , concrete measures that might help close the gap have not yet been widely implemented. In 2015, [...]