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In an Equal Pay Day gathering at New York’s City Hall on April 8 speakers proposed a variety of ways to close the gender pay gap. Public Advocate Letitia James said the City Council needs local control over its minimum wage.
Minimum-wage jobs are mainly held by women struggling to support families on way too little. Let’s guarantee these hard-working breadwinners a living wage. The first in a series of articles by Women Employed on the challenges facing low-wage workers.
Female retail workers in the New York area experience hardships common in a sector plagued by low pay, little health insurance, scheduling instability and an abuse of part-time job status, a Retail Action Project report finds today.
A persistent myth about men suffering worse job-loss woes in this recession cries out for a few additional facts, along with Carrie Lukas’ whopper in the Wall Street Journal about the end of the gender wage gap.
More than 30 organizations filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday asking it to approve a court hearing for the historically large class action by Wal-Mart employees charging company-wide sex bias.
The Museum of American Finance is showcasing 10 famous Wall Street women, two living and the rest historic. The main planner says she was spurred by the passage last January of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
The Paycheck Fairness Act has new lead sponsors and fresh hope of passage. Ellen Bravo looks at why this act will be a critical step in giving women the tools needed to achieve equal pay for equal work.
With the support of an Israeli labor rights organization, Palestinian female workers in a West Bank settlement are heading back to court for better pay and working conditions from Royalife, a company that makes bed linen for export.
As Congress debates at least 10 health care proposals, prominent women’s advocates say work and wage issues make the single-payer model the best deal for women. So far, it’s mustering little support from lawmakers.
A state-by-state analysis of male and female earnings provides fresh fodder for today’s Equal Pay Day. Among women with college degrees the widest wage gap was in Nevada. The widest wage gap overall was in Wyoming.