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

Excluded Workers Have Plenty to Say on Human Rights Day

The U.S. Social Forum in Detroit earlier this year saw the launch of the the Excluded Workers Congress (EWC), a coalition of workers historically left out of the labor movement: domestic workers, ...Read More

Senate Republicans Tell Women: You Are Mere Pawns

In the great game to topple the President and beat the Democrats, every Republican Senator voted as a united bloc this week to stop the passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act for women. For those who ...Read More

Paycheck Fairness Act Stalls in Senate–Grrrr!!

The U.S. Senate failed to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act this morning, provoking anger and disappointment from women. According to the National Committee on Pay Equity, women still make just 77 cents ...Read More

Take Action for Pay Equity: Call In Today!

As the “lame duck session” of Congress got underway yesterday, the impending vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act gives the current sitting senators the opportunity to prove that they are ...Read More

Own Your Power To Make Change: Ms. Interviews Gloria Feldt

Women must be fearless in wielding power. This is the point of Gloria Feldt’s new book, No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change the Way We think About Power and Leadership (Seal Press). “The most ...Read More

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