By Houston Chronicle Editorial Board The gender gap is another barrier. Women hold only one-third of positions in growing middle-skill jobs that pay at least $35,000 or as much as $102,000 per year, according to a report by the Institute for Women's Policy Research. To [...]

Heidi Hartmann , an economist, is the president and founder of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Updated August 15, 2016, 3:20 AM The new Act to Establish Pay Equity in Massachusetts is similar to voluntary moves by Google and other companies that have changed [...]

By Michelle Chen Unless women are somehow only 25 percent as creative as men these days, we have a big problem with our so-called “innovation age.” In one clear measure of who takes the credit for scientific inventions, male inventors dominate about four in five [...]

By Judith Warner Many women don’t get any formal encouragement whatsoever. “Never. Never. Never. Never. Never,” was Gillibrand’s reply when I asked if party rainmakers had ever approached her about running for office once she had made her interest clear. She’s not alone. In 2014, [...]

By Sarah Kliff and Soo Oh Overall, the American legislature is disproportionately dominated by men. And this isn’t the case when you look at America’s peer countries. In Nordic countries like Finland and Sweden, women make up just over 40 percent of the legislature. And [...]

This was not the vision that Sharon Day, co-chair of the Republican National Committee, had in mind two months after the November 2014 elections. That’s when I saw her speak on a panel discussion, pointedly held at the RNC’s Capitol Hill headquarters, as a group [...]