Lawrence, who made about $52 million in Forbes’s most recent 12-month count and became Hollywood's most highly paid actress, acknowledges her struggle isn’t “relatable” to the average working woman. But the gender wage gap persists in virtually every occupation, ultra-prestigious and entry-level. In 2014, women working [...]

The Gender Wage Gap The poll found that four in every 10 women in all the participating countries listed pay as the most important workplace issue. In the U.S. it clocked in as the biggest concern, with 58% placing it at the top of the [...]

I get frustrated with the political games in our state," Kipke said, "because I think it's more about the next election." The state legislation, known as Maryland Healthy Working Families Act, would have required most employers to let workers earn up to seven days in [...]

Young women have been more likely than their male counterparts to attend college for the past 20 years or so, said Heidi Hartmann, the president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. But the country reached a tipping point [...]

On the low end, employers of minimum wage workers, who now earn $10.50 per hour, would have to contribute 0.6 percent of each worker’s pay, or about $131 per employee per year. “It’s a very cost-effective program, it doesn’t require a lot of money to provide a [...]

The feminist movement has made gigantic strides over the years—but nearly a century since women were given the right to vote, the sad fact of the matter is: We've still got lots of work to do. Here, the shocking ways women aren't yet equal to [...]