Nearly four years after the District enacted a law that made it mandatory for most workplaces to offer paid sick days to employees, advocacy groups and researchers are ramping up pressure on the city to review the policy to determine whether it’s been effective at [...]

The gap between women’s and men’s pay remained about the same for the fourth straight year in 2011, as both genders got slammed by lower wages. Women earned 77 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2011, the Census Bureau said this week as [...]

"Cost-conscious households are one reason employment in the childcare industry has dropped 1.8 percent since the recession ended June 2009, even as total U.S. payrolls increased 2.1 percent. Jobs in the sector hover at levels of five years ago as unemployed parents watch their children [...]

"Men lost jobs at a greater rate in the first rush of the Great Recession in 2008, but women are now lagging far behind in the recovery. A report to be released today by The Institute for Women's Policy Research in Washington, D.C., and commissioned [...]