About 300,000 workers don't have paid sick leave in Dallas, according to a study by the Institute for Women's Policy Research, which relied on 2016 U.S. census data. The study concluded that number disproportionately affects people of color and low-income workers — two populations unlikely [...]

Women have made up the majority of people with bachelor’s degrees since 2007, Pew notes, but it wasn’t until 12 years later that they accounted for the majority of the college-educated workforce. That’s because college-educated women are less-likely to be working than men in large [...]

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 [...]