Lassere is a skilled carpenter with a brand-new contractor’s license, and on the first project for her new company—renovating a house near downtown Charlottesville—she’s handling everything from replacing the flooring to moving the staircase to updating the bathrooms, with a little help from her friends:  plumber [...]

Emily Martin of the National Women's Law Center noted that Harris' Equal Pay Plan includes pay transparency, which allows for greater potential to close the gender and race pay gap. Katie Hamm of the Center for American Progress said that Warren has been "front and [...]

According to a report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, in 2017 only 17% of private companies offered pay transparency and 25% actually explicitly expressed that it was forbidden. Let’s be honest here: the only real reason for this is that they do not offer fair [...]

At its worst, in 1966, the gender wage gap was more than 40 percent — women made just under 58 cents to a man’s dollar. At this glacial rate of improvement, women will have to wait until 2059 for equal pay. For women of color, the news is [...]

...the Supreme Court declared that “women were covered by the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and ultimately that distinctions by sex had to be justified by an important state interest,” according to a report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. The campaign to [...]

Between 2017 and 2018, the number of women working in construction trades increased by 17.6 percent, rising to well over a quarter of a million women (276,000), according to a new analysis from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). This growth is nearly five times faster [...]