"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 [...]

"On Labor Day 2012 the country is still recovering from the worst recession of modern times. Unemployment is stuck above 8 percent, and many of the jobs that have come back are lower level than the ones lost . But Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, [...]

"Women have trended Democratic since the Ronald Reagan-Jimmy Carter 1980 election, but abortion isn’t the driving issue, said Seth McKee, a University of South Florida political science professor. "It’s one of the myths in American politics that people think that’s where the gap comes from," [...]

It’s getting harder for young women to find summer jobs. The unemployment rate for women aged 16 to 24 rose this summer from 13.8% in April to 16.2% in July—the peak month for summer jobs—as high-school kids and college graduates sought work at restaurants and [...]