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 [...]

By Hannah Orenstein Jensen isn't sure yet if she'll take any official legal action, but she still wants to fully understand why she wasn't given equal pay. "They should definitely be ashamed of themselves," she said. You might be wondering, why is a quarter such a [...]

By Danielle Paquette Still, Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, a Washington think tank, said the welfare policies of the '90s were engineered to support society’s most vulnerable: poor children, who tend to live with their moms. “The goal was to employ [...]

By Susan Antilla Everybody loves a half-price sale, and if you're a recruiter on Wall Street, there's always a markdown on female employees. Women in finance last year earned 52 cents for every dollar that men made in a job category the Bureau of Labor [...]

By Haley Goldberg In April, Alex Morgan and four of her fellow U.S. women’s national teammates made a major move off the field: They filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the U.S. Soccer Federation, demanding the women’s national team (WNT) players receive equal pay to the [...]