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 [...]

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 [...]

Today is Women’s Equality Day, marking the 95th anniversary of the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote. While that—and the progress we’ve made over the past century—is certainly something to celebrate, it’s still a bit premature to start calling things “equal.” [...] [...]

Today is Women’s Equality Day, marking the 95th anniversary of the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote. While that—and the progress we’ve made over the past century—is certainly something to celebrate, it’s still a bit premature to start calling things “equal.” [...] [...]