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Fact Sheet: The Wage Gap for Women
Sarah Jane Glynn gives the key facts you need to know about unequal pay and how it affects women.
Fact Sheet: Paid Sick Days
Fact sheet by Jane Farrell and Joanna Venator explains the importance of paid sick days for U.S. employees and employers.
Conservatives’ Stab at Pay Equity Falls Short
Sarah Jane Glynn shows why the Paycheck Fairness Act is far superior to the conservative alternative offered up last week.
Gender Equality for Green Jobs Worldwide
Rebecca Lefton and Jorge Madrid, along with Lejla Sadiku, examine the opportunities to ensure that a booming new jobs sector institutes equal pay from the get go.
10 Facts About Latino Women and Pay Inequity
Vanessa Cárdenas gives 10 facts on how Latinas still earn significantly less than men and their white, African American, and Asian counterparts.
The New Breadwinners: 2010 Update
Issue Brief
Sarah Jane Glynn describes how women are now either breadwinners or co-breadwinners in most families.
The Top 10 Facts About the Wage Gap
Audrey Powers and Sarah Jane Glynn lay out the facts about unequal pay between women and men.
The Gender Wage Gap Double Whammy
Sarah Jane Glynn details the damage inflicted on women’s lifetime earnings by the gender wage gap and shows how paid family and medical leave can help solve the problem.
The Health Insurance Compensation Gap
Issue Brief
Jessica Arons and Lindsay Rosenthal explain the gender gap in health care coverage and how the Affordable Care Act will lessen that divide.
Infographic: The Gender Pay Gap
Matt Separa considers what women and their families could do with the money they lose to the gender pay gap.
Pay Equity and Single Mothers of Color
Sophia Kerby argues that wage and wealth disparities that hurt women of color also hurts the country’s economy.
Unequal Pay Day for Black and Latina Women
Julie Ajinkya presents the basic facts about the deep pay inequality facing so many women of color in our economy today.
The Gay and Transgender Wage Gap
Unequal pay for equal work suggests strong federal workplace protections are needed for gay and transgender workers, writes Crosby Burns.
The Effects of Paid Family and Medical Leave on Employment Stability and Economic Security
Report
Heather Boushey and Sarah Jane Glynn on how providing paid family and medical leave helps keep people employed.
Protecting Workers and Their Families with Paid Family Leave and Caregiving Credits
Report
Ann O'Leary explains how updating Social Security can help the program meet its original goal of providing economic security to families as a whole.