Start Talking about Pay!
When it comes to compensation, many people think there’s safety in silence: Don’t ask anyone what they earn, and don’t discuss your own paycheck. But the reality is that staying…
When it comes to compensation, many people think there’s safety in silence: Don’t ask anyone what they earn, and don’t discuss your own paycheck. But the reality is that staying…
Despite the passage of the this law more than a half a century ago, women still do not take home wages equal to those of their male peers. Know your…
To achieve economic security for all women, AAUW advocates strengthening retirement benefits and programs, including pension improvements and protecting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid from privatization.
No matter how you break down the gender pay gap numbers — by state, age, education, race, or occupation — the gap is substantial.
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…
Women tend to borrow more for their education — and struggle more to pay it off — in part because of the gender pay gap.
In 2014, two male administrators at VSU were appointed to faculty positions as associate professors. Spencer alleges that their salaries were vastly higher than those of female professors at all…
Older women face a pay gap in retirement largely because of the inequities they've encountered while working.
AAUW’s story begins in 1881, when a small group of female college graduates banded together to open the doors for women’s career advancement and to encourage more women to pursue…
Overall, women working full time in the U.S. make 82% of what men do. And collectively, the pay gap costs working women more than $500 billion a year.