By Amrith Ramkumar “If we can’t ameliorate these sex differences in compensation, we are going to have a much harder time trying to attract really qualified female physicians to go into specialties where we need them most,” Blumenthal said. A pay gap between men and [...]

By Adrienne LaFrance Lisa Seacat DeLuca is the most prolific inventor in IBM history. She also happens to be a woman, a detail that’s notable perhaps only because of the outsized number of men who hold patents in the United States. DeLuca, who’s focused on [...]

By Jamie Merisotis and Anne-Marie Slaughter There’s one big obstacle standing in the way of working parents getting these quality jobs: a college degree. And colleges are doing far too little to help them. There are 4.8 million undergraduates raising children — one-fourth of all [...]

SCOTT CARLSON: I'm Scott Carlson from The Chronicle of Higher Education , and I'm here with Barbara Gault, from the Institute for Women's Policy Research. Barbara, nice to have you at The Chronicle . BARBARA GAULT: Thanks for having me. Glad to be here. SCOTT [...]

By Regina Romero HB2579 represents blatant legislative overreach into local decision making. Proposition 202, passed by voters in 2006, clearly establishes that regulating nonwage benefits is a local issue. Ironically, many of the GOP politicians who are trying to subvert local control are the same [...]