Gender Wage Gap

Cancer Survivors Facing Widespread Employment Discrimination In Japan

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Video, Workplace Discrimination, Japan Cancer Discrimination, Gender Wage Gap, Business News, Cancer in Japan, Cancer Discrimination, Equal Pay, Business News

Struggling with a cancer diagnosis is difficult enough. But for many, that's only the start. Japanese employers have discriminated heavily against...

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Why We Need 'Well-Built' Women

Lori Sokol | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Women Entrepreneurs, Women's Empowerment, Women, Women in Architecture, Women in Business, Corporate Social Responsibility, Feminism, Gender Wage Gap, Impact News
Lori Sokol

In the documentary 'A Girl Is a Fellow Hereʼ, Beverly Willis, the film's producer, is seeking to set the record straight -- that female architects have contributed much to the well-built environment.

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Why Women Should Wage War on Big Money in Politics

Blair Bowie | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Gender Equality, Women's Rights, Campaign Finance Reform, War on Women, She Should Run, Susan B. Anthony List, Gender Wage Gap, Emilys List, U.S. PIRG, Planned Parenthood, Citizens United, Politics News
Blair Bowie

It's said that there are two types of power: people and money. However, those two are not weighted equally. So despite being a coveted "voting bloc," as long as women earn less than men, we lack the political power to even control the conversation about our own "issues."

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A Major Career Woman? Rethinking Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day

Sarah Damaske | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Working Women, Paycheck Fairness Act, Working Class, Middle Class, Women in the Workforce, Take Your Daughter to Work Day, Gender Wage Gap, Business News
Sarah Damaske

If we want Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day to benefit all of our children, additional focus must be placed on girls growing up in working-class families. These girls are the ones who might benefit most.

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GOP Strategist Denies Women Make Less Than Men

The Huffington Post | Alana Horowitz | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Video, Equal Pay Law, Alex Castellanos, Alex Castellanos Equal Pay, Gender Wage Gap, Lilly Ledbetter Act, Lilly Ledbetter Law, Gender Pay Discrimination, Republicans Equal Pay, Politics News

A GOP strategist on Sunday denied that women make less money in the workplace than their male counterparts. Responding to Rachel Maddow's comment t...

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The Worst State For Being Paid Equally

The Huffington Post | Emma Gray | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Aauw, American Association of University Women, Pay Equity, Wage Gap Gender, Gender Pay Gap, State by State Wage Gap, Wage Gap, Women Wage Gap, Wage Gap by State, Slidepollajax, Equal Pay, Equal Pay Day, Equal Pay for Women, Equal Pay Day 2012, Wage Gap Between Men and Women, Equal Pay Men vs Women, Gender Wage Gap, Women News

Even as we discuss how women are becoming “The Richer Sex,” American women still earn a lot less than their male counterparts -- 23 percent less o...

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More Than a Date: The Connection Between Tax Day and Equal Pay Day

Kristin Maschka | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Women, Income Tax, Income Taxes, Money, Gender Wage Gap, Tax Day, Wage Gap, Mothers, Equal Pay Day, Women News
Kristin Maschka

Equal Pay Day and Tax Day both fall on April 17 this year due to a simple calendar coincidence. But the connection between the two and the financial i...

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Men Have Gained Almost All Of The Recovery's Jobs

Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Job Losses, Video, Mancession, Gender Wage Gap, Business News, Men Job Gains, Economic Recovery, Job-Gains, Recession, Business News

The recession may have hit men particularly hard, but they've been the runaway winners during the recovery. Men have landed 88 percent of the jobs...

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Women Still Struggling To Make It To The Top Of The Ladder

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 04.02.2012

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Women still aren't making it to the top of the ladder. Male chief financial officers in the U.S. get paid 16 percent more on average than their fe...

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How the Gender Wars Became a Class War

Joan Williams | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Class Warfare, Education Gap, Economy, Middle Class, The Atlantic, Wage Gap, The End of Men, Gender Wars, Gender Wage Gap, Media News
Joan Williams

When The Atlantic's article "The End of Men" came out, I was irritated. They're at it again in a piece that crows about "The Spectacular Triumph of Working Women Around the Globe" -- a title that becomes mystifying as soon as you read the article.

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Wall Street Has The Worst Pay Equality In America

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Women in the Workplace, Women, Financial Industry, Gender Gap, Video, Earning Gap, Financial Services, Financial Sector, Wall Street, Gender Wage Gap, Sexism, Gender Pay Gap, Big Banks, Business News

Wall Street is one place where it pays to be a guy. For people in financial-sector jobs -- such as insurance agents, security sales agents, financi...

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The Marrying Kind: How Class Shapes Our Search for a Soul Mate

June Carbone | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Marriage, Jobs, Class, Children, Gender Wage Gap, Family, Business News
June Carbone

Moreover, as the wages of college graduates have stagnated over the last decade, they have done so even more for women than for men. Today's college graduates recognize that they need each other to realize the good life and they are very careful in the search for the right partner.

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Is Occupy Good for Women?

Christine Bork | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Occupy Wall Street Women, Occupy Wall Street Feminism, OWS Women, Occupy Wall Street, Women's Equality, Women's Salaries, Female Executives, Gender Wage Gap, Chicago News
Christine Bork

If the Occupy movement is a fight for economic equality, it should be fighting for women to earn equal pay for equal work. Occupy says our biggest problem is the growing disparity in wealth. I say women have always faced this disparity.

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Nearly Half Of All Households Lack Basic Economic Security

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, Video, Earning Gap, Income Inequality, Third World America, Gender Wage Gap, Wider Opportunities for Women, Wage Stagnation, Economic Security, Wage Gap, Hispanics, African Americans, Basic Needs, Economic Insecurity, Business News

There are certain basic costs that every household runs up -- food costs, medical expenses, utility bills. And almost half of all Americans are in dan...

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The Gender Wage Gap: A Historical Perspective [Infographic]

Aol Jobs | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Women in the Workforce, Female-Employees, Gender Discrimination, Gender Wage Gap, Women News

Last week, Western Sugar Cooperative in Denver agreed to pay $550,000 to settle a claim that it discriminated against its female employees. As repo...

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How to Close the Wage Gap Without Paying Men Less

Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Women Paid Less, Wage Gap, Recession Wage Gap, Young Women Outearn Men, Recession, Women Earning More Than Men, Gender Wage Gap, Women News
Jessica Pearce Rotondi

I'm optimistic that women of all ages can make up the gap on their own terms without having men loose out.

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If the 'End of Men' Is Here, Why Is Female Poverty Up?

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: National Women's Law Center, End of Men, Women's Legal Defense and Education Fund, Slate/Intelligence Squared, Slate, Gender Wage Gap, The Atlantic, Hanna Rosin, Poverty Statistics, Families, Women News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

Sure, women may be doing better in school, but we're still up against the pay gap and glass ceiling at work and the second shift at home. And that's only half the story.

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Laura Bassett

What Obama's Jobs Plan Does For Women

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: Women in the Workplace, Obama Jobs, Teacher Jobs, Gender Wage Gap, Obama Jobs Speech, Unemployed Women, Obama Jobs Women, Women Jobs, Obama Jobs Plan, Politics News

While men lost more jobs in the recession than women, women have been slower to recover, losing nearly 300,000 jobs since the economic "recovery" bega...

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A Step Toward Equal Pay

Liz Krueger | Posted 06.16.2011

Read More: Gender Wage Gap, Gender Equality, Pay Gap, Equal Pay for Women, Equal Pay, Gender Pay Gap, Career & Money, Politics News
Liz Krueger

Some injustices are not always as easy to spot. In fact, sometimes they're well hidden. Therefore if we want to end wage disparities, and give women the justice, and pay, they deserve, than we must take the first step in bringing this discrimination to light.

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POLL: Did You Negotiate Your First Salary?

Posted 08.12.2011

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Recent data shows that young women earn between 15 and 17 percent less than their male peers in their first year of work after college. While there...

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Amanda M. Fairbanks

5 Ways to Earn What You're Worth

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 08.13.2011

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For women in particular, negotiating your first salary -- or any salary, really -- can be difficult and more than a little intimidating. But as with m...

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Amanda M. Fairbanks

'They Don’t Negotiate': Young Women College Graduates And Their First Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 08.13.2011

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NEW YORK -- Casey Ferguson was sitting in her car on Jan. 19 when she finally got the call she'd waited months to receive. On the line was Jon Newm...

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The Wage Gap Plot Thickens

Dr. Sasha Galbraith | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Unicef, Wage Gap, Mother's Day, Gross Domestic Product, Wall Street Journal, Independent Women's Forum, Gender Wage Gap, Business News
Dr. Sasha Galbraith

Ignoring unpaid work distorts our Gross Domestic Product and the assessment of our national living standards. Among married fathers and mothers who work, women spend twice as much time on housework than men.

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Wal-Mart's Woman Troubles -- Too Big to Be Sued?

Martha Burk | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Working Women, Sex Discrimination, Walmart, Wage Gap, Dukes v. Walmart, Wage Discrimination, Gender Wage Gap, Class Action, Business News
Martha Burk

Wal-Mart is entitled to a fair profit, as are all businesses. But the key word is fair.

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What's at Stake for Women in Wal-Mart v. Dukes

Fatima Goss Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Women's History Month, Pay Discrimination, Wal-Mart, Gender Wage Gap, Wal-Mart v. Dukes, Business News
Fatima Goss Graves

No matter how available wage data is sliced and diced, a single truth remains: a wage gap exists between male and female workers, and an upcoming Supreme Court case could seriously widen it further.

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