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 [...]

The average woman who works full-time still earns only 78 cents for every dollar the average man makes . While the wage gap is a national problem, certain states perform better than others when it comes to the gender earnings ratio. To draw attention to [...]

"Earlier this week on the The Daily Show , Jon Stewart cited a new study from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) that predicts women won’t reach pay parity with men until 2058. As guest commentator Kristen Schaal joked, that’s after the expected introduction [...]