By Eoin O'Carroll Christian Science Monitor Professor Fouad, who spent three years surveying women with engineering degrees about their career choices, cites inflexible schedules, a lack of opportunities for advancement, and incivility toward women. “It’s not the women’s fault,” she says, noting that she found no [...]

By Eoin O'Carroll Other barriers women face are an absence of supportive social networks and implicit bias on the part of venture capitalists. “They tend to ask women more difficult questions to try and put them on the spot and figure out how they’re going [...]

By Ursula Mead Finally, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, closing the gender pay would have added more than $512 billion in wage and salary income to the U.S. economy in 2016 alone, or roughly 2.8% of the gross domestic product. By paying women [...]

By Emily Peck Women in unions who work full time earn 30 percent more than women who are not, according to data compiled by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Hispanic women see the biggest gains from belonging to a union; those without union membership [...]

by Erin Delmore Currently, many workers are barred from knowing how much their colleagues make. Around half of workers surveyed by the Institute for Women's Policy Research in 2011 said that talk of wage and salary information was either discouraged or prohibited at their workplace and could lead to [...]

By Judith Ohikuare The decision is set to impact women and workers of colour, as unions have traditionally helped disenfranchised groups fight for fair pay. "Unions play an essential role in boosting the quality of jobs around the country and the research shows that women [...]