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Next Steps for Progress on Equal Pay Report
A woman looks at listings on a bulletin board in Westminster, California, on September 8, 2011. (AP/Jae C. Hong)

Next Steps for Progress on Equal Pay

Strengthening equal pay protections and adopting new workplace policies to address work-life challenges can help ensure that all workers are paid fairly for their work.

Jocelyn Frye

The Top 10 Facts About the Gender Wage Gap Fact Sheet
Alana Sutton works on an engine at a Harley-Davidson plant in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, on November 20, 2014. The company is targeting women to help fill manufacturing jobs. (AP/Carrie Antlfinger)

The Top 10 Facts About the Gender Wage Gap

Here are some key facts to know about the gender wage gap on Equal Pay Day.

Kaitlin Holmes, Danielle Corley

What’s Keeping Women’s Pay in the Mad Men Era? Video

What’s Keeping Women’s Pay in the Mad Men Era?

Today, the average woman who works full-time, year-round earns 79 cents to every dollar earned by men. What’s behind the wage gap?

Andrew Satter, Sarah Jane Glynn, Kaitlin Holmes

Women of Color and the Gender Wage Gap Report
A cashier rings up a sale at a store in Chicago on August 22, 2012. (AP/Sitthixay Ditthavong)

Women of Color and the Gender Wage Gap

Women of color experience a wider gender wage gap, on average, compared with white women.

Milia Fisher

The Gender Pay Gap Explained Video

The Gender Pay Gap Explained

Women in the United States only earn 78 cents to the dollar compared with men. But there is a lot of confusion about this number. What does it really mean? And where did it come from?

Sarah Jane Glynn, Sara Langhinrichs, Andrew Satter

Interactive: The Game of Wages Interactive

Interactive: The Game of Wages

This interactive infographic shows how the gender wage gap manifests itself for two hardworking Americans.

Jane Farrell

The Higher The Pay, The Higher The Pay Gap Article

The Higher The Pay, The Higher The Pay Gap

As a society we need to fight for equal pay at all levels, including in the upper hierarchies of the more selective and competitive jobs. Great strides for equal pay have already been made, but the problem isn’t solved at "good enough."

Campus Progress

Rachel Ny

Rosie The Riveter On A Wind Turbine: Women And The Growing Green Economy Article

Rosie The Riveter On A Wind Turbine: Women And The Growing Green Economy

The rapidly growing green sector offers an opportunity for a more equitable and inclusive workforce that can help to narrow the gender wage gap and build a stronger economy.

Climate Progress

Mari Hernandez, Rebecca Lefton

How Pay Inequity Hurts Women of Color Report
As women’s earnings continue to become increasingly important to families, closing the gender-based wage gap is crucial to gaining access to wealth accumulation in communities of color, which are still deprived of economic security. (iStockphoto)

How Pay Inequity Hurts Women of Color

With women being the breadwinners in a growing number of families, pay equity isn’t only a basic right, it is an economic necessity—particularly for women of color.

Sophia Kerby

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