The share of those who choose to work part-time because of family and health constraints, lifestyle preferences, or other reasons, is around 13 percent, a level that has been relatively stable since at least the 1970s. In recent years that group has changed little in [...]

Pregnant women and those with kids agree on one thing — the main reason they fight with their spouse. Both expecting and experienced mothers say whether to go back to work to earn more money for the family or deciding to stay at home is [...]

The societal gender dynamics that Schumer skewers don’t shift much over the course of a year, so part of what keeps Inside Amy Schumer interesting season to season is the way Schumer finds new angles into old problems. Look closely, and you can even see [...]

Today is Equal Pay Day, which marks how far into the year the average American woman must work to earn what her male counterpart earned last year. The pay gap, for full-time, year-round workers, currently stands at 78 cents to the dollar and hasn’t narrowed [...]

Regardless, the subject once again came up on last night’s episode of The Daily Show, where senior women’s issues correspondent Kristen Schaal hilariously/sadly enumerated all the things that will most likely take place before women get equal pay; according to The Wall Street Journal it won’t happen until [...]

Most women will never earn as much as men in their lifetimes. In Wyoming, it will take 144 years for equal pay,  according to a recent report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research that looked at  trends in women’s employment and earnings . Other states with [...]