The slowly recovering U.S. job market has helped women rebound faster than men: They’ve now regained all the jobs they lost to the Great Recession. Men are still 2.1 million jobs short. And the gender gap is expected to persist until the job market is [...]

Lean in .  Opt out .  Negotiate up . These days, there’s no shortage of advice for women about how to get promoted, manage their careers and personal lives, and receive equal pay. But what if women don’t think they need it? A new  Gallup [...]

Sixty years ago, American women began heading off to the workplace in droves. But in the last couple of decades, that trend has completely stalled out. "It seems that we are stuck," said Cornell University economist  Francine Blau , who  co-authored a paper on this [...]