Anna North But last year, the wage gap actually got slightly bigger. In 2018, women’s earnings were 81.1 percent of men’s, down from 81.8 percent in 2017, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). The drop was especially pronounced for black women, whose earnings [...]

By Chloe Aiello It would take the average woman 20 percent longer to earn what her white male counterpart earned in 2018. For black and Hispanic women, however, the discrepancy is even greater, according to The Institute for Women's Policy Research. >>Read more

By Andrew Keshner The disparity is stark in some sectors: female personal financial advisers make a little more than half (56.4%) of men in the same job, while women across all industries make 83% of what men make, according to a separate analysis by the [...]