..."A significant amount of new work for women is in low-wage occupations. According to research from the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), 60 percent of women’s job gains from 2009 to 2012 were in occupations that pay, on average, less than $10.10 an hour. Cashiers, [...]

.. .“It’s a good, really exciting first step,” said Jane Henrici, a study director at the women’s policy institute. “It’s not the end.” Demand for direct-care workers is outpacing labor-pool growth, PHI found . The average age of in-home health-care workers is now 44, based [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]