BY EMMA HINCHLIFFE Every spring, the United States marks Equal Pay Day, the date that marks the number of extra months into the new year that women must work in order to earn what men brought in the previous year. Amid the global coronavirus and [...]

By WHIZY KIM Has March 2020 felt longer than a century for you, too? You’re not alone. We should all take a deep breath, but we’re not quite done yet — March 31 is Equal Pay Day. This year, with a public health crisis crystallizing [...]

By Alisha Haridasani Gupta By the Numbers 59 cents The amount women earned for every dollar a man earned in 1963, when the Equal Pay Act was passed. It took almost three decades for that to tick up to roughly 70 cents, in the 1990s, [...]

By Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A FEDERAL judge has blocked the city of Dallas from enforcing an ordinance requiring private businesses to offer paid sick leave, but activists contend employees need those benefits more than ever as the coronavirus continues to spread. District Judge Sean Jordan [...]

By CARRIE N. BAKER The problem with these figures is that the wage gap only includes wages. But earnings include a lot more than just wages. Other forms of compensation must be calculated in earnings—such as health insurance, retirement account contributions, bonuses, and self-employment income. According to [...]

BY SARAH DREHER Equal Pay Day—how far into a new year the average woman has to work to earn what the average man made the previous year—falls on March 31 this year, a couple of days earlier than in 2019. Progress? Hardly, especially in a leap [...]