While Democrats on Capitol Hill push the Paycheck Fairness Act, crowing about "equal pay for equal work," a popular theme for this fall's midterm elections, the party's rhetoric glosses over a much larger problem. The real issue is not just that women make less than [...]

This week, Democrats in the Senate are to begin considering the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would add new regulations on how private companies pay their employees. Democratic lawmakers are seeking to overcome an expected Republican filibuster of the bill, which faces stiff opposition in the [...]

"The wage gap between men and women has hardly budged in the last decade. In fact, according to research released in April of 2013 by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), it will take another 45 years before U.S. men and women earn the [...]

"What the researchers found was that the women in the group — all of them are among the generation called millennials — tended to be more educated by the time they were 27 than were the men. The young people who did finish college worked [...]

As a general rule, Americans are bred to be hard workers, even when they're sick. However, a recent study out of the San Francisco-based Integrated Benefits Institute shows the short-term productivity gains of working through illness could affect long-term productivity costs. "The issue becomes problematic [...]