Wal-Mart’s Gender Washing

“Wal-Mart Launches Global Women’s Economic Empowerment Initiative; Effort Includes Goal to Source $20 Billion from Women‑Owned Businesses in the U.S.” read the headline on Wal-Mart’s press ...Read More

A Woman’s Work on Economic Equality is Never Done

A divorced janitor–a 27-year employee and the mother of a 17-year old son with the mental capacity of an 18-month old–fails to report for mandatory overtime one Saturday when her son’s ...Read More

Women’s Equality Day: What the Heck Do I Tell My Daughter?

Today is Women’s Equality Day. At the center of my mind today is: What the heck do I tell my daughter? How do I tell my daughter about the fact that despite many gains made for women’s ...Read More

Work-Life Balance? Forget It, Says Bloomberg Case Judge

At a time when work, workers and the workplace are “job one” for the struggling U.S. economy, it’s discouraging to find out that the nation just can’t get serious about taking half of ...Read More

Gender and Race Determine the Worth of Your Degree

Researchers at Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce have compiled a new report on how education affects people’s earnings, based on 2007-2009 American Community Survey ...Read More

GOP State Legislators Want to Weaken Child Labor Laws

It’s Equal Pay Day, a time to review the reasons why so many hard-working women find themselves chronically running short on cash. Women need to work 15 weeks into 2011 to earn what men earned ...Read More

On Equal Pay Day, Busting 4 Top Myths About the Wage Gap

This year’s Equal Pay Day falls on April 12, marking how far into 2011 the average woman must work in order to earn what the average man had by the end of 2010. In the 15 years since Equal Pay ...Read More

Separate And Unequal

Today, Equal Pay Day, marks the wage gap: the fact that full-time women workers earn 77 percent of what full-time male workers do. One major reason is job segregation by sex. Jobs themselves are ...Read More

We Expect This from Goldman Sachs, But from Nonprofits?

In 2005, Pittsburgh’s newspaper the Tribune-Review reported that women nonprofit executives were fleeing the state to avoid Pennsylvania’s “pink collar ghetto”–a pay gap $6,000 greater ...Read More

Who Can Afford to Retire Anyway?

Any day now the Senate will decide whether to raise the retirement age to 69. Proponents argue that raising the retirement age is necessary to save Social Security. Opponents argue that raising ...Read More

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