Patricia Arquette appeared on "The Late Show with David Letterman" Tuesday to discuss pay equality, the topic she raised during her acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars last month. "There is legislation in place. It's supposed to be fair pay legislation, but clearly women [...]

Movements need sound bites to spread widely. But in reality, the gender wage gap is much more complex than the single-figure "cents on the dollar" stat that is commonly used as shorthand for the problem. The recently released " Status of Women in the States: [...]

When it comes to equal pay, the American woman is stuck in a proverbial waiting room. But the number on her ticket, the length of her stay, largely depends on where she lives and to whom she was born. A new report from the  Institute for [...]

When it comes to equal pay, the American woman is stuck in a proverbial waiting room. But the number on her ticket, the length of her stay, largely depends on where she lives and to whom she was born. A new report from the  Institute for [...]

The typical woman born between 1955 and 1959 has lost $531,502 in cumulative lifetime earnings because of America’s gender-pay gap, according to a new  report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Losses from the gap accumulate over the course of a woman’s lifetime, and [...]

While the U.S. has made strides toward reducing the gender wage gap over the decades, new  research today shows just how far there is to go. At the current rate of progress, the gender pay gap — the difference between women's and men's earnings — won't close nationwide until 2058, according to a [...]