The gender pay gap is a worldwide problem, but women in some places have it worse than others. A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) reveals that working women in the South suffer some of the harshest inequalities in the U.S., [...]

Women own more than 42 percent of District businesses, a factor in why D.C. ranks the highest among 14 southern states on the overall status of women in a new report released today. The Institute for Women's Policy Research gave the District a grade of [...]

If working women were paid the same amount as their male counterparts living in the same place, working the same hours, with the same education, their poverty rate would drop by more than half in 28 states, according to an analysis released Thursday by the [...]

There are a lot of reasons behind the pay gap. Some of the fields dominated by men, such as finance, tend to pay more. Women may be prone to spending more time out of the workforce than men to care for children and other family members. And some [...]

Here in America, sick leave is viewed as a perk. That means that lower-income workers are the ones most likely to get none. And that essentially makes paid sick leave a public health issue. Low-paid hourly workers in service industries like fast food and retail [...]