This week’s Inside Amy Schumer featured a sketch about an important issue that many don’t know about: the death of hundreds of thousands of women in sexy rodeo accidents. Accidents that end not just in painful deaths, but embarrassing ones, as less attractive women are [...]

Even though women’s real earnings have increased by 30 percent in the past 30 years and men’s earnings have remained largely the same, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research estimates most of the country is still decades away from closing the gender wage gap.

DeAna Jimenez is a single mom who many times has had to choose between finding a family member or friend to care for her sick child or staying home and missing a day's pay. In Colorado, more than 813,000 private-sector workers, almost 43 percent of [...]

Women make up the bulk of caretakers and even if they’re acting in an unofficial capacity, the requirements of caring for someone else can force many women to reduce their participation in the labor force. According to a recent report from the Institute for Women’s [...]

Women make up the bulk of caretakers and even if they’re acting in an unofficial capacity, the requirements of caring for someone else can force many women to reduce their participation in the labor force. According to a recent report from the Institute for Women’s [...]

As a country, the United States is the only developed nation that doesn’t guarantee paid family leave or paid sick days , and it ranks toward the bottom for how much it spends on early childhood education. But things are even spottier at the state [...]