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Gender Pay Gap Likely Won't Go Away Until After You Retire: Study
Most women that are employed today will probably retire before they see pay equality in the workplace. That's because the gender wage gap -- or the difference between average full-time pay for women and men -- isn't expected to close until 2058 , according to [...]
Battle for Nomination to Top Job at Federal Reserve Heats Up
“Anytime gender is raised as an issue, it doesn’t matter if you say it’s irrelevant or not,” said Laura Tyson, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley who is close to Yellen and Brainard. “It’s raised.” Tyson was among more than 400 economists [...]
Gender Poverty Gap Grows in Recovery
A new analysis by the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) finds that the persistent gap in male and female poverty has been growing during the economic recovery, with 16.3 percent of females, and 13.6 percent of males living in poverty in 2012.
Most Women Working Today Will Not See Equal Pay During their Working Lives
2012 Earnings figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau yesterday do not hold much good news for women. Real earnings have failed to grow, and the gender wage gap is at the same level as it was in 2002.
U.S. Women Last Month Regained All Jobs Lost to the Great Recession; Men Still 2.1 Million Short
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 [...]
125,000 Jobs Gained by Women in August
According to the IWPR analysis of the September employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), job growth remained anemic in August for men, but accelerated for women. Of the 169,000 total jobs added to nonfarm payrolls in August, women gained 125,000 jobs (74 percent) while men gained 44,000 jobs (26 percent).
