By Lanier Isom Women make-up half the labor force. Millions of families depend on women’s paychecks to make ends meet; millions more rely on women as the primary breadwinner. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research study of earnings released in November 2018, women [...]

By Vanessa Hua It led me to ponder structural inequity, and how to explain to them that women are almost half of the workforce, receive more college and graduate degrees than men, and yet still continue to earn considerably less. In 2017, full-time, year-round working [...]

By Lauren Lumpkin Free evening care services will be offered Monday through Thursday at no cost to students who receive Pell grants, a need-based grant for low-income students. The federal funds AACC secured are renewable for up to four years, said Klenkel. The grant will [...]

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 [...]