It’s been a big week for women in the workplace. According to a  Pew Research Center report (PDF) released on Wednesday, mothers now represent 40 percent of all breadwinners in U.S. households with kids, a huge gain from the 11 percent of 1960. Among today’s [...]

WARREN, NH — Women in full-time year-round jobs earned 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man . Yet, at a town hall earlier this week, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) claimed that Congress has done enough to ensure that women receive equal pay for [...]

IWPR Executive Director and Vice President Barbara Gault talked about a Census Bureau report, “Who’s Minding the Kids,” which examined child care in the U.S. Among the topics they addressed were the cost of child care, non-parental care, kinds of child care arrangements, families in [...]

"The results assume the earnings gap stays steady through the years. Although woman have made made significant strides at closing the difference, the gap actually widened last year. In 2012, women earned 80.9 cents per every dollar earned by men, compared to 82.2 cents the [...]