By Safia Samee Ali How pregnancy or the possibly of pregnancy is perceived in the workplace is potentially a problem for all women, said Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research. "A pregnancy penalty doesn't just hurt mothers or expectant women, married [...]

By Safia Samee Ali How pregnancy or the possibly of pregnancy is perceived in the workplace is potentially a problem for all women, said Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research. "A pregnancy penalty doesn't just hurt mothers or expectant women, married [...]

By Emily Crockett The  gender wage gap has improved quite a bit since women started entering the workforce in large numbers. Women who work full time and year-round earned just 58 percent of what men earned annually in 1968; now that ratio is about 79 [...]

By Emily Crockett The  gender wage gap has improved quite a bit since women started entering the workforce in large numbers. Women who work full time and year-round earned just 58 percent of what men earned annually in 1968; now that ratio is about 79 [...]

By Michelle Chen That sticky 20 percent wage gap has plateaued over the past decade. Since the early 1990s, in fact, it has only narrowed by about a dime on the dollar (ticking up from about 70 cents to 80 cents for each dollar men [...]

By Bryce Covert Women in the U.S. currently make about 79 cents to a man's dollar , which means that even in 2016, women are still treated as economically inferior to men in the workplace. Although there is a gender wage gap in every state , [...]