1. Women earn less because they enter low-paying fields and become moms. While it’s true that men tend to enter higher-paying fields than women, that difference alone does not explain the gender wage gap. Even when they work in the same occupations, men earn more. [...]

"Do men conspire to keep the pay of the women at low levels? No evidence indicates that this has occurred. What about the theory that senior management purposely keeps men's pay higher? There is little proof of this either, though several legal cases make this [...]

"Willetts is wrong to attribute the UK's high unemployment rate to women's education gains, said Heidi Hartmann, president of the Washington-based Institute for Women's Policy Research. But he's right about well-educated women pairing off with well-educated men. "'Marriage is a sorting effect,' she said. 'Highly [...]

"Willetts is wrong to attribute the UK's high unemployment rate to women's education gains, said Heidi Hartmann, president of the Washington-based Institute for Women's Policy Research. But he's right about well-educated women pairing off with well-educated men. "'Marriage is a sorting effect,' she said. 'Highly [...]

" The Institute for Women's Policy Research submitted a report called "Ending Sex and Race Discrimination in the Workplace: Legal Interventions That Push the Envelope" to the justices that notes that about two-thirds of all employment-discrimination related class action settlements in the past decade wound [...]