For years, immigration policy has focused almost exclusively on enforcement and deportations. Now there’s hope of a new, inclusive road to citizenship. The reforms being debated in Washington are particularly critical for the care workers who look after our children, parents, and grandparents. By 2020, [...]
The gender wage gap is a hot topic. So hot that President Obama’s first act when he took office was signing the Lilly Ledbetter Act, which give the victims of pay discrimination more time to file charges against their employers. It even came up during [...]
The gender wage gap is a hot topic. So hot that President Obama’s first act when he took office was signing the Lilly Ledbetter Act, which give the victims of pay discrimination more time to file charges against their employers. It even came up during [...]
It’s International Women’s Day, which makes today a good day to examine why America just can’t seem to pay women as much as men. To be sure, the gender pay gap has been shrinking for decades. But, by one measure, it got worse last year, [...]
Among the health-care law’s myriad new requirements, one requires all employers with more than 50 workers to provide a breast-feeding room for any lactating mothers. This room has to be private and separate from the bathroom, where tight spaces can make lactation tricky work. That [...]
The economy may be recovering, but it’s leaving women behind. The pay gap between male and female workers widened last year for the first time since the beginning of the economic recovery. Women earned 80.9 percent of what men earned in 2012, compared to 82.2 [...]
