By Griffin Wynne Of course, career path and salary ranges are often largely impacted by societal factors like racial and gender identity. According to a 2015 study by the Institute for Women's Policy Research, for every dollar that full-time American men earned, American women earned 80 [...]

By Melissa Locker It was an unusually blunt self-assessment, but, hey, it’s 2019, and women and minorities are still paid less than their white male counterparts, and that really needs to change. As Fast Companyreported last year, if efforts to close the pay gap proceed at the [...]

By Brent Arends The results in the Gornall study do not mean there is no discrimination, or even that women face a level playing field. By some recent estimates, say the researchers, venture capitalists invest 35 times as much in startups run by men as they do [...]

By Jon Marcus Former students can be hard to track down and have jobs and families that make it tough for them to find the time and money to go back to college. And they often aren’t eligible for financial aid. Meanwhile, few institutions offer [...]

But a community conditioning itself to accept abuse out of racial solidarity is not only unacceptable, it’s also further jeopardizing the safety and well-being of black women and girls. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, more than 20 percent of black women are raped [...]

By Gabrielle Moss And Jessica Milli, study director at the Institute for Women's Policy Research, points to a factor that has nothing to do with leaning in, out, or sideways: women are still expected to perform the majority of domestic labor, including childcare, in our country, because [...]