By Whitney E. Akers Inability to take paid sick days is tied to past outbreaks Past outbreaks can give us a clue into how sick day policies can fuel the rapid spread of viruses. During the outbreak of H1N1 swine flu in 2009, an estimated 8 [...]

By Allison Dulin Salisbury The [Rise Prize], totalling $1M, is funded by Imaginable Futures, a venture of The Omidyar Group, and Lumina Foundation. It is designed to support creative, impact-driven organizations of all types in designing new tools, programs, and initiatives to help student parents [...]

By Leilani Carver-Madalon, Opinion Contributor Let’s begin with the persisting pay gap. You may have heard that women, in general, earn 80 cents for every dollar earned by men, but there are problems with this widely cited figure. First, it doesn’t account for the experience [...]

BY ALANA SEMUELS “We hear politicians talk about the loss of factories and manufacturing and mining, but there has not been the same level of outcry around the loss of retail jobs,” says Nicole Mason, the president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, a think [...]

By Caroline Fairchild Just the same, discrimination remains the biggest barrier between women and equitable pay. Some studies purport that as much as 38% of the pay gap can be attributed to pure discrimination. And at the current rate, the gender wage gap will not go away until [...]