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The Father of a Daughter initiative provides tangible actions men can take to bring about change in the workplace for their daughters, working female spouses and female colleagues, helping to minimize the gender wage gap.
For women of color, Equal Pay Day 2016 still hasn’t come. This inequity shows how far we still have to go in gaining political representation. Our numbers are too low in U.S. Congress and even worse in state government.
Fifty-three years later, a persistent gender wage gap leaves the door open to other legislative efforts and has spawned such annual rituals as Equal Pay Day. This year, mothers’ equal pay day was May 16.
Last year, the World Economic Forum forecast that it would take 117 years for gender parity to be achieved in the global workplace. If U.K. women want to change a wage gap that has stood still since 2012, here’s what’s needed.
The Equal Rights Amendment has been hanging around since 1923 and, politically speaking, often gathering dust. But Hollywood stars are reaching for it now as a tool for their own discrimination battles and to join a broader sisterhood.
U.S. demand for welding and other skilled trades is predicted to skyrocket in coming years. Today, some of the least “traditional” career paths for women are also the best opportunities to receive higher pay.
Did you know a major public preschool initiative is at stake on Capitol Hill while the campaigns hog all the headlines? A professional budget watcher spots a few key provisions that could help close the wage gap.
U.S. gender discrimination may be less blatant than in other places. But it shows up every time women reach into their pockets. By accepting less pay for work of equal value, we accept a diminished spending capacity for women.
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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.
A lashing sentence for a 15-year-old was overturned by a Maldives court. But a Gallup poll indicates that 15 percent of American women were passed over for a promotion or an opportunity at work because of their gender.