More than half of the pay gap between the genders can be explained by the fact that women tend to
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Category: Income Inequality
States Take Lead On Equal Pay, With Legislation Stalled In Congress
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signed his first piece of legislation, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, seven years ago
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Narrow the Gender Pay Gap? There Are Apps for That
Seven new apps designed to help women negotiate higher salaries, get better informed about pay differences in their fields and otherwise eliminate wage disparities between
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The White House Wants To Know How Much Your Company Pays Women And Minorities
The White House announced Friday that it plans to start collecting data on the earnings of women and minorities at
Read moreGeographical Inequality in China
China is a broad country, with hundreds of thousands of cities. However, there are huge differences between cities along the
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Pay secrecy lets employers get away with paying women less
It’s International Women’s Day and again we lament the pay gap between men and women. In Australia, the gender pay gap
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The Ace We Need For An Equal Future
If the Australian Open has taught us anything, it’s that athletic performance is priceless. For two weeks every January, fans
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If women want to reduce the gender pay gap, they have to fight for it
Men out-earn women by more than $27,000 a year. That was the finding of Workplace Gender Equality Agency data released this week.
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What’s Driving Inequality: CEO Pay or Company Success?
Income inequality has often been attributed to top executives reaping a windfall while their workers’ pay stagnates. As my Capital
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Which States’ Tax Laws Widen Inequality
The federal tax code reduces income inequality significantly, taking more from the rich than it does from the middle class
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Why It Matters When Hollywood Actresses Talk About Pay Equality
This week everyone was talking about “House of Cards” — not because Netflix just dropped a new season on us,
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Robin Wright’s Equal Pay Fight Deserves Praise, But It’s a Move Only the Most Privileged Can Make
Robin Wright has once again proven herself to be one of Hollywood’s brightest stars. This time though, it wasn’t with a
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Income Inequality May Cause Boys to Drop Out of High School More Often
The stark reality of the U.S. is that people born poor are likely to remain that way. But the exact
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It’s Time To Talk About Equal Pay
After 7 years of student life, balancing casual hospitality work with study, I was pretty excited to finally have a
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The Gender Pay Gap Widens as Men’s Earnings Grow Twice as Fast as Women’s
The gender pay gap is widening again because men’s earnings are growing this year at twice the rate of women’s. The median
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U.S. Pay Inequality Is Growing More Between Firms Than Within Them, Paper Says
U.S. earnings inequality has increased greatly in the last three decades, but the trend is due primarily to rising differences
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Unequal Pay’s Lasting Legacy: Lost Income From Your 1st Day at Work Until the Day You Die
It’s certainly not news that American women continue to earn less than men for the same work, typically 79 cents on
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Income Inequality Is Wider in Atlanta Than in San Francisco or Boston
The gap between rich and poor has expanded in U.S. cities, and nowhere is that chasm wider than Atlanta. The top
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Is Australia’s Gender Wage Gap Linked To School Subject Selection?
Women may be underrepresented in high-paying jobs in engineering and information technology because of their choice of subjects studied in
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US income gap widened last year as top 1 percent gained most
WASHINGTON (AP) — Financial inequality became even wider in the United States last year, with average income for the top
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