"Analysis by the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) found women at all levels of literacy tend to earn less than men, but it's at the lowest literacy levels that the wage gap between genders is most striking. Women with low literacy are twice as [...]

  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, [...]