Maybe it is time to start calling the glass half full. Employers in the United States added 200,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday , a report that came on the heels of a flurry of heartening economic news and signaled gathering [...]

By Allison Linn The Great Recession of 2007-09 included job losses that were so much greater for men than for women that some dubbed it the “mancession.” But once the nation went into recovery – meaning the economy was expanding again, albeit slowly – men [...]

"Women’s employment finally appears to be climbing, resulting in nearly equal job growth over the past three months for both genders, according to an analysis of the latest employment statistics from the Labor Department conducted by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research . Before now, [...]

"But even when the moral argument is clear, one lesson from both the Seattle and Connecticut victories is this: only hard, savvy organizing can overcome the entrenched corporate interests and Big Business lobbies with their rote arguments that reform will “cost jobs” or create a [...]

"The wage penalty shows up in an average retirement income for women 65 and older in 2009 that was 57 percent less than for men of the same age group—$21,519 vs. $37,509, according to the MetLife Study of Women, Retirement, & the Extra-Long Life. Women [...]