Salary Negotiation Could Have Made a Difference
Anastasia Engebretson accepted the salary offered to her in her first job out of college. She didn’t know she had the option to negotiate. She found when she arrived for… Read more »
“Strength of Character” Needed to Survive Pay Discrimination Lawsuit
Author’s note: The following blog post tells a story of gender pay inequity — a situation we hear about too often at AAUW. I have presented the story as told… Read more »
What Does It Mean to Lose 6 Percent of Your Paycheck?
One year after college graduation, women are already paid less than the men with whom they graduated. Some of this difference is explained by factors known to affect earnings, such… Read more »
Bankruptcy Court Revealed “Heartbreaking” Pay Inequity
Kerri Sleeman didn’t expect to collect her final paycheck through bankruptcy court when she took a job as a design supervisor at a Michigan firm. And she certainly didn’t expect… Read more »
What Does Race Have to Do with a Woman’s Salary? A Lot.
Race/ethnicity has always created a dividing line in the United States, and it’s no different with the pay gap. Each year, AAUW’s The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap… Read more »
Strategies for Salary Negotiation: A Webinar Hosted by WEPAN
April 9 was Equal Pay Day, the symbolic date when women’s wages catch up to what men were paid the year before. Read more »
Equal Pay Webinar Co-hosted by the U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau and AAUW
While much progress has been made, working women still earn less, on average, than their male counterparts for performing similar work. Read more »
The Importance of Race When Discussing the Wage Gap
Each year, AAUW’s The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap addresses this question, and, of course, the answer is that the pay gap affects all women; but it doesn’t… Read more »
An Equal Pay Day (Un)happy Hour
Time: 4:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Location: American Association of University Women, 1111 16th St NW , Washington, DC 20036 Cost: FREE Event Description: On Tuesday, April 9, AAUW will… Read more »
Three Reasons the Wage Gap Hurts Women in STEM
An AAUW analysis of 2011 U.S. Census Bureau data shows that in many science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) jobs — as in most other fields — women continue to… Read more »