Forty-five percent of those surveyed said they work while sick because they can’t afford to lose the money -- a phenomenon Ziebarth and his co-author call “contagious presenteeism.” Sick people come to work and infect their co-workers, spreading disease. Sick parents without paid leave are also [...]

The pay gap was actually shrinking in the second quarter of 2014, but "that was largely because male earnings were weak — declining in five quarters between 2010 and 2014 — and women mostly saw modest gains." The Institute for Women's Policy Research reports that women are "equal, if not [...]

3. EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN California passed an unusually strict equal-pay act last month, requiring that women and men within the same company be paid the same for doing "substantially similar" work, even if they have different titles, or work in different offices. The news [...]

The outlook of the millennials surveyed could be chalked up to youthful optimism, but these young women weren't naively unaware of the challenges they face -- four in every 10 women saw the gender wage gap as a key issue. And the top concern for women of all ages [...]

Last month, Intel  announced a $5 million investment in Georgia Tech to increase the number of women and minorities studying computer science and engineering over the next five years. It's only the latest example of a big-name university's push to shrink the well-known gender and racial diversity gaps in STEM (science, [...]