The Gender Pay Gap
No matter how you analyze it, the gender pay gap is real, persistent and harmful to women’s financial well-being.
No matter how you analyze it, the gender pay gap is real, persistent and harmful to women’s financial well-being.
Over half a century after pay discrimination became illegal in the United States, a persistent pay gap between men and women continues to hurt our nation’s workers and our national…
AAUW Statement on 2020 data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics on what happened to women's pay as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
To achieve economic security for all women, AAUW advocates pay equity and fairness in compensation and benefits.
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There is more than one equal pay day to mark how the gender pay gap is wider for many women of color.
In honor of this year’s March 15 Equal Pay Day, the symbolic day when women’s earnings catch up to men’s from the previous year, the American Association of University Women…
Rizo argues that using prior salary alone to calculate current wages perpetuates existing pay disparities and undermines the legislative intent of the Equal Pay Act, which is to address pay…
Women remain disproportionally represented in low-wage jobs, while men dominate the highest-paying fields.