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gender pay gap
November 4, 2021
Lily Meyer
The Gender Pay Gap Starts at Home
How the division of labor within couples is stopping women getting equal pay at work
April 19, 2021
Magazine
Ryann Liebenthal
The Long Fight to Cancel Student Loans
How student debtors took a radical idea to the mainstream
September 16, 2020
J.C. Pan
A Diversity of Terrible Bosses
Corporate America’s pledges to make C-suites less white and male don’t mean much for workers. But it keeps coming back to the idea, anyway.
August 26, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Chaos of Reopening Schools
New York City schools are supposed to be back in session in September. Are they ready?
August 7, 2020
J.C. Pan
The Wildly Unequal “Shecession”
The pandemic and recession have disproportionately hit women, but the recovery will be easier for some than others.
May 20, 2019
Bryce Covert
Make Corporate America Pay for Underpaying Women
The gender wage gap has stagnated because the system leaves it up to female workers to fight for fairness.
April 10, 2018
Bryce Covert
What the U.S. Can Learn from Britain on Equal Pay
On Equal Pay Day, a look at the UK's giant data collection effort.
March 7, 2017
Bryce Covert
Why We Strike
This week, women across the country will put down tools to give expression to a new kind of feminism.
September 8, 2016
Bryce Covert
How to Get Companies to Stop Lowballing Women
A new proposal to ban salary histories is one small step toward ending a systemic problem.
May 2, 2016
Nancy Modesitt
Could Knowing How Much Your Coworker Earns Help Close the Gender Pay Gap?
Why salary transparency might be unnecessary.
January 14, 2016
Elaine Teng
The Academy celebrated a good year for women, but let’s not get too carried away here.
December 30, 2015
Elaine Teng
The Best Scenes of Women in the Movies This Year
The frank, eye-opening moments that made this a landmark year for women on film.
October 14, 2014
Rebecca Leber
Cosmopolitan's Editor Sums Up Our Gender Double-Standard in One Perfect Quote
July 3, 2014
Rebecca Leber
QEDaily: Inequity at the White House
June 23, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
I'm Insanely Jealous of Sweden's Work-Family Policies. You Should Be, Too.
May 15, 2014
Bryce Covert
Journalism's Gender Problem Just Got Worse With Jill Abramson's Firing
The wage gap is still wide, and women are penalized when they ask for more
April 29, 2014
Bryce Covert
The Gender Wage Gap Is Ugly. So Is the Right-Wing Effort to Deny It.
April 7, 2014
Bryce Covert
Obama's New Move on Gender and Pay Could Have More Impact than the Lilly Ledbetter Act
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