Ruth Marcus writes in The Washington Post: “The Mommy Wars are a conflict that is never really extinguished. It doesn’t take much, as Hilary Rosen discovered, for the embers to erupt. This mommy, for one, is tired of the stale debate over Who Made The Ri…
Today is Equal Pay Day — the day when U.S. women’s average earnings finally catch up with the amount men were paid on average in the previous year. That means that women must have worked more than 600 hours into 2012 to attain the same pay men received in 2011.
Jason DeParle reports for The New York Times: “The poor people who were dropped from cash assistance [in Arizona], mostly single mothers, talk with surprising openness about the desperate, and sometimes illegal, ways they make ends meet. They have sold f…
Stephanie R. Thomas writes on Compensation Cafe: “Equal Pay Day is only a couple of weeks away. The discussion surrounding the gender pay gap is starting to pick up, and two researchers think they have a new explanation for the persistence of gender-rela…
Bryce Cover writes for The Nation: “The wave of optimism about women’s economic fortunes has crested yet again with the release of Liza Mundy’s latest book, The Richer Sex. Her thesis is that given certain trends, any day now women will outearn men, beco…