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Messages That Matter This Mother's Day

Debra L. Ness | Posted 05.10.2013 | Women
Debra L. Ness

These messages -- and they really only scratch the surface of the challenges America's working mothers face -- illustrate the incredible strength and resilience of mothers who hold jobs in this country. But they also reveal a stark and unacceptable reality

The Staggering Cost Of The Gender Wage Gap Revealed

The Huffington Post | Caroline Fairchild | Posted 05.10.2013 | Business

It's still a man's world. And to make a man's amount of money over her career, the typical working women would have to put in an extra decade of work....

March Trade Deficit Better -- Why This Matters More Than Budget Deficit

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.02.2013 | Business
Dave Johnson

The balance of trade is important because trade is how our country makes a living as a country. This huge continuing deficit matters, because it is literally draining money and jobs (and factories and industries) from our economy.

World's 50 Best Restaurant List Shows Women And Minorities Shut Out Of Restaurant Industry

Posted 05.01.2013 | Black Voices

Despite the 2013 world's best restaurant hailing from Spain, you'd be hard pressed to find a person of color among the annual ranking of highly regard...

LOOK: An Amazing Equal Pay Prank

Nina Bahadur | Posted 04.11.2013 | Women

A Swiss bank found an effective way of demonstrating the frustrations of the gender pay gap to its male customers: men withdrawing cash from the bank'...

From Seattle to New York City, Women and Families Need Action on Fair Pay

Debra L. Ness | Posted 04.10.2013 | Politics
Debra L. Ness

This week, we recognize Equal Pay Day -- the day that marks how far into the new year women have to work to catch up with men's wages from the previous year. Let's remember how far we have to go to see real equality for women and press for progress.

How to Tackle Your Gender Wage Gap

Kate McGuinness | Posted 04.09.2013 | Women
Kate McGuinness

This year, Equal Pay Day falls on April 9. The date symbolically marks the number of extra days, on average, women would have to work in 2013 to earn as much as men did in 2012. Think about that when your alarm clock rings tomorrow. The same amount!

This Will Make You Angry!

| Posted 04.09.2013 | Miami

50 years ago today, President John F. Kennedy declared the end of gender pay discrimination as he signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963 into law. But ...

13 Countries That Make America's Gender Pay Gap Look Embarrassing

Posted 04.09.2013 | Business

Fifty years ago today, President John F. Kennedy’s Equal Pay Act was signed into law with the express purpose of ensuring that women get paid equall...

Lessons from a Feminist Paradise on Equal Pay Day

Christina Hoff Sommers | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics
Christina Hoff Sommers

Sweden seems to be an egalitarian, feminist utopia. So why are American women ahead of their Swedish counterparts in breaking through the glass ceiling?

LOOK: The Cities With The Largest Wage Gaps

The Huffington Post | Christina Huffington | Posted 04.09.2013 | Women

In the metropolitan area with the worst discrepancy, women make an average of 73 cents for every dollar paid to men.

Is This Why There Are Fewer Women In Business?

Nina Bahadur | Posted 04.04.2013 | Women

One study might have discovered the reason for the business gender gap -- morality. Previous explanations for the underrepresentation of women in ...

Why Men Are Still Getting The Highest-Paying Jobs

Posted 03.22.2013 | Women

By: Chad Brooks, BusinessNewsDaily Contributor Published: 03/21/2013 07:35 AM EDT on BusinessNewsDaily Despite the popular sentiment that women ...

Women Wake Up Grumpier? Look Around and You'll See Why

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 05.15.2013 | Women
Marianne Mollmann

This week, Duke University published a new study, which found that women wake up grumpier than men. The study's authors attribute the additional grumpiness to women needing more sleep than men. Me? I think there is just a lot to be grumpy about lately.

The Cruel Gap Between CEO Pay and the Stagnant Minimum Wage

Ralph Nader | Posted 05.13.2013 | Business
Ralph Nader

Walmart CEO Mike Duke makes approximately $11,000 an hour. Think about that -- $11,000 every hour. Think about an hour of your day, the tasks you accomplish, and the compensation you receive from your employer.

Just How Far Have Women Come For Equal Pay?

Posted 03.05.2013 | Women

Neale Godfrey | The Daily Muse "Equal pay for equal work” sounds like a simple concept, and the ideal way of life. But how close are we to actual...

Are You Better Off Than Your Grandmother?

Posted 02.21.2013 | Women

Rebecca Traister | Glamour Believe it or not, it’s been 50 years since Betty Friedan’s "The Feminine Mystique" hit shelves. The book is credite...

Raising the Minimum Wage and the Floor for All

Sarita Gupta | Posted 04.21.2013 | Business
Sarita Gupta

Fundamentally, the President understands that a higher minimum wage - not tax breaks for the rich - is what's needed to drive economic growth for those who most need it in America: workers. And for low wage workers everywhere, this increase is long overdue.

Women Don't Negotiate Because They're Not Idiots

Joan Williams | Posted 04.02.2013 | Women
Joan Williams

Linda Babcock herself, the author of the studies that gave rise to the "women don't ask" industry, has shown that women don't negotiate for a very simple reason: they sense -- correctly -- that it will hurt them if they do.

INFOGRAPHIC: Black Women Make How Much?

Posted 01.29.2013 | Black Voices

While economists have suggested that closing the gender wage gap would create a huge economic stimulus across the U.S., a recent report by the Nationa...

Latinas Hit Hard By Wage Gap

NBC Latino | Sandra Lilley | Posted 01.10.2013 | Latino Voices

Texas and California might have the largest populations of employed Latinas – but Hispanic women in these states are paid only 59 cents and 69 cents...

How Conscious Capitalism Can Save America

Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted 12.21.2012 | Business
Sanjay Sanghoee

Those who espouse Darwinian capitalism call their approach "Economics 101." Well, having taken plenty of economics courses in my life, I can safely say that the Whole Foods approach not only conforms to the fundamentals of economics but is far superior to what the Darwinians have to offer.

WATCH: New Zealand's Powerful New Equal Pay Ad Campaign

Nina Bahadur | Posted 12.13.2012 | Women

Imagine a world where men are charged 10 percent more than women to park their cars just because they have penises. Sounds like gender discrimination,...

Why Unions Are Necessary

Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted 02.10.2013 | Business
Sanjay Sanghoee

Unions are not social clubs, they are entities with the specific purpose of securing workers' rights, and in order to do that they need to be as tough, and sometimes as combative, as management.

The Black Church, Social Justice and the Fiscal Slope

Minister Leslie Watson Malachi | Posted 02.03.2013 | Black Voices
Minister Leslie Watson Malachi

A combination of swift tax hikes on lower- and middle-income earners and drastic cuts in social services would not only stunt economic growth, it would place an immediate burden on the most vulnerable. And unfortunately, a disproportionate number of the most vulnerable are African American.