A recent study from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research reported that the state’s earnings ratio places Massachusetts in 18th place nationally for pay equity and, without changes, the state’s wage gap is expected to persist until 2058. “We’re behind other states, we’re behind our [...]

The weekly gender wage gap narrowed by just 1.5 percentage points from 2005 to 2014, compared with 8.1 points in the 10 years prior, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. At current rates, it would take another 43 years for women’s salaries to reach [...]

In a recent ranking by the  Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), Oregon was chosen as the  best state for women’s reproductive rights , and for good reason. The state passed a law earlier this month making it possible to  buy birth control over the [...]

An estimated 43 million American workers have no access to paid leave. They’re mostly low-wage workers, already strained when recovering after the birth of a child, for example, or tending to a sick kid. Top earners, on the other hand, tend to receive the benefits through [...]

With women making about 82.5 percent of what men earned in 2014, the gender pay gap is alive and well in the U.S. In Massachusetts, a state that generally has better work and pay opportunities for women, that gap isn't expected to close until about [...]

With women making about 82.5 percent of what men earned in 2014, the gender pay gap is alive and well in the U.S. In Massachusetts, a state that generally has better work and pay opportunities for women, that gap isn't expected to close until about [...]