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The Important Career Lesson We Can Learn From Peggy Olson

Forbes Woman | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Peggy Olson, Mad Men, Gender Gap, Wage Gap, Women in Business, Earning Potential, Earning Money, Sexism, Women News

Men do a lot things we don’t that contribute to the persistent 20-30% wage gap. Mad Men, that great reminder to the nation of life before femini...

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2012 or 1963?

Deborah J. Vagins | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Wage Gap, Paycheck Fairness Act, Equal Pay, John F. Kennedy, ACLU's Liberty Watch Women's Rights Scorecard, Aclu, Equal Pay Act, Women News
Deborah J. Vagins

I find it surprising that, in 2012, presidential candidates and pundits are debating issues so central -- and so seemingly settled -- to women's equality.

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Inequality's Rising, But It's Not The Kind You Think

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Auto Loans, Income Gap, Debt, Video, Earning Gap, Consumer Debt, Income Inequality, Student Debt, Inflation, Wage Gap, Wage Stagnation, Credit Card Debt, Debt Inequality, Personal Debt, Business News

There's a gap between America's richest citizens and everybody else. And that gap has been growing larger for years. No, it's not income inequality...

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This Got Worse In New Orleans

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: New Orleans, Income Gap, Natural Disasters, Louisiana, Earning Gap, Income Inequality, Black Unemployment, Black Income Distribution, Hurricane Katrina, Wage Gap, Wage Inequality, Video, Business News

After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans came back more unequal than before. That's the conclusion of a recent report from the American Constitution So...

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Wage Inequality Between College Majors Is Growing

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Video, Education, Wage Inequality Spikes, Wage Inequality Increases, Inequality Wages, Income Inequality, Inequality Wage, Occupy Wall Street, Wage Gap, Wage Inequality, Slidepollajax, Wage-Inequality, Wage Inequality Rises, Business News

If you worry that you may make the same meager inflation-adjusted salary forever, you may want to consider going back to school and getting a differen...

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Equal Pay Apps: Knowledge To Fight The Wage Gap At Your Fingertips

Elianne Ramos | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Minority Wage Gap, Wage Gap, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, US Department of Labor, Equal Pay Day, Equal Pay, Latino Voices News
Elianne Ramos

What do you think about these new Equal Pay apps? Do you think they will help women as they fight for Equal Pay?

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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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Women's Work: A Political Flashpoint and an Urgent Policy Imperative

Debra L. Ness | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Hilary Rosen, Ann Romney, Women, Paid Sick Days, Paycheck Fairness Act, Paid Leave, Business News, Working Mothers, Fair Pay, Wage Gap, Wage Discrimination, Equal Pay Day, Politics News
Debra L. Ness

Much more important than the rhetorical war around Hilary Rosen and Ann Romney is the urgent need to finally adopt policies that address the needs of employed women and their families, now and in the future.

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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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Lawyers Have Income Inequality Problems, Too

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Income Gap, Financial Industry, Lawyers, Earning Gap, Wall Street, Income Inequality, Pay Gap, Great Recession, Salary, Wage Gap, Law School, Video, Business News

Income inequality is a problem among lawyers, too. As The Wall Street Journal notes, the country's richest lawyers have gotten richer since the Gre...

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Stop the Presses: The Rich Get Richer

Steven Clifford | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: 1 Percent, 99 Percent, Albuquerque Police, Albuquerque, Pat Boone, Seattle News, Pat Boone Music, New York Times, Income Gap, Wage Gap, Seattle, Medicare, Income Disparity, Classism, Mcdonalds, Pat Boone Mediare Ad, Comedy News
Steven Clifford

The New York Times published an op-ed titled "The Rich Get Even Richer." I guess their next scoops will be "Hudson River Full of Water" and "Pope Benedict XVI Is Catholic."

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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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Why It's A Lousy Time To Be A Twenty-Something

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Young Worker Salary, Income Gap, Student Debt, Millennial Generation, Student Loans, Recession, Young Workers, Millennials in the Workplace, Gender Gap, Video, Young Adults, Pay Gap, Great Recession, Millennials, Gender Pay Gap, Wage Gap, Generation Y, Business News

Attention, young workers: It's not your imagination. Your're underpaid. Wages for employees in their twenties took a sharp dive during the past de...

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Alice Hines

Shopping Malls Aren't Dead for the One Percent

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Sears, Luxury Spending, Dead Malls, Kmart, Mall at Short Hills, Taubman Center, Income Inequality, Luxury Goods, Wage Gap, Malls, Beverly Center, Commercial Real Estate, Shopping Malls, Upscale Mall, Business News

In a still-ailing economy, shopping centers are the latest incarnations of the widening wealth gap. Indeed, go to a luxury mall owned by Taubman C...

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Alexander Eichler

Employment Rate For Young Adults Lowest In 60 Years

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: U.S. Economy, Income Gap, Earning Gap, Income Inequality, Young, The Lost Generation, Adults Recession, College Graduates Recession, Job Market, Labor Market, Young Adults, Unemployment, Great Recession, Wage Gap, Young Adults Unemployment, Youth Unemployment Rate, Youth Unemployment, College Graduates, Generation Y, Video, Business News

Are you young and looking for work? You're in good company. Just 54 percent of Americans ages 18 to 24 currently have jobs, according to a study re...

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It's the Economy, Girlfriend!

Amy Siskind | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: The Mentor Exchange, The New Agenda, Wage Gap, Women?S Rights, Mentoring, National Mentoring Month, Gender, Economic Empowerment, Women News
Amy Siskind

The central issue for today's women is economic empowerment. With money comes control -- not dependency, the root cause for so many of the evils impacting today's women.

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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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Women and Work -- Where to Now?

Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Workforce, Employees, Women, Bureauof Labor Statistics, Ale-Heavy Industries, Feminist, S, Mentoring, Middle Management, Manufacturing, Work-Life Balencegt, Construction, Wage Gap, Families, Recession, Women News
Dr. Peggy Drexler

Regardless of where you fall on the scale of feminist ideology -- great progress to stubborn inequality -- in the arena of women and work, big shifts are afoot. The direction is clear. The destination is not. But by all indications, work and families have some adjustments ahead.

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The Real Cost Of Low Confidence

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Decision-Making, Kathryn Heath, Harvard Busines Review, Feminism, Lawrence Summers, Shankar Vedantam, Mary Murphy, Gender Roles, Gender Gap, Claude Steele, James Gross, US. Dept. Of Labor, Jill Flynn, Mary Davis Holt, Wage Gap, Erin Cech, Engineers, Women News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

It's not that women can't make the grade, the study found. It's that, when it comes to venturing out into the workplace, they don't think they'll fit.

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Occupy Wall Street Is the Tip of the Iceberg

Eugene Linden | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Outsourcing, Ultra Rich, Income Taxes, Middle Class Misery, Occupy Wall Street, "Winner Take All" Economy, Wage Gap, Economic Inequality, Housing Bubble, Disenfranchised Workers, Middle Class Anger, Political Extremism, Politics News
Eugene Linden

We may be approaching that point where the wage gap cannot continue to widen. Will these protests continue to swell and force politicians to act? If they do, what will they give the voters?

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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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Beyond the Protests: An American Story

Scott Stringer | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Income Gap, The Other 99%, #Occupywallstreet, Economy, Middle Class, Economic Crisis, Occupy Wall Street, Wage Gap, American Jobs Act, New York News
Scott Stringer

As the Occupy Wall Street protests stretch into their third week, New Yorkers may still be confused about who the protestors are and what they want. But there should be no mistaking the fears and concerns that motivate them.

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This Labor Day, Consider This ...

Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Women in Politics, Wage Gap Statistics, Women Paid Less Than Men, Gender Gap, Women's Rights, Women in Congress, Pay Equity, Slidepollajax, Working Women, Pay-Equality, Wage Gap, Pay Inequity, Equal Compensation, Women News

As Labor Day approaches and we all reflect on the work we and others do, it's worth keeping in mind how fairly we are compensated for that work, and w...

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Presidential Report Card: How Much Has Obama Really Done For Women?

Allison Gaudet Yarrow | Posted 10.28.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Women's Equality Day, Women in Politics, Lily Ledbetter, Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, Gender Inequality, Lily Ledbetter Act, Obama and Women, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Wage Gap, Wage-Equality, Barack Obama, Equal Pay, Women News
Allison Gaudet Yarrow

Friday, in a White House press release celebrating the 91st anniversary of women's suffrage in the U.S., President Obama declared: "The 19th Amendme...

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How To Claim Your Financial Freedom

ForbesWoman | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Reclaiming Financial Freedom, Financial Freedom, Wage Gap, Economic Inequality, Money, Women Money, Women Finances, Finances, Women News

Financial expert and author, Manisha Thakor, devotes her life to helping women achieve economic empowerment and financial freedom. In her two engaging...

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