The gender wage gap stands at 22 percent , meaning that American women who work full-time, year-round, make just 78 percent of what their male peers make in a year. Progress to close it has been basically nonexistent for a decade . But some argue [...]

The gender wage gap stands at 22 percent , meaning that American women who work full-time, year-round, make just 78 percent of what their male peers make in a year. Progress to close it has been basically nonexistent for a decade . But some argue [...]

Two days after actress Patricia Arquette made an impassioned call for women to be paid equally to men as she accepted an Academy Award last month in Hollywood, state legislators called a news conference in Sacramento to make the same demand. [...] While pay gaps [...]

This may sound crazy, but women in Michigan still make just 77.1 cents for every dollar a man earns — even worse than the national average. Think about what that means: Our paychecks are about one-quarter smaller. Women have suspected it for years. It's been [...]

Congratulations Maryland, your women are economically better off than their counterparts in any other state. That’s according to a new ranking that seeks to assess access to opportunity and economic security for women in America, the second in a seven-part “Status of Women in the States” series of [...]