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In the “girl” era, are women really splurging for fun?

by Jordan Mangi
Feb 29, 2024
Economic disadvantages like the wealth gap persist, despite talk of the “she-conomy."
Since the pandemic began, single women and other lower-wealth groups saw larger percentage gains in their wealth than their higher-wealth counterparts. Hernández Kent said that’s primarily because it’s easier to double a small amount of money.
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Many jobs still have demographically skewed workforces, new data shows

by Amy Scott and Sofia Terenzio
Feb 14, 2024
The WSJ’s Lauren Weber talks about "how we sort ourselves into different occupations and how in some ways we are sorted."
About 97% of preschool teachers are women, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report on the U.S. workforce.
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August 15th is Mothers' Equal Pay Day this year

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer , Erika Soderstrom and Alex Schroeder
Aug 14, 2023
In other words, it takes eight extra months for working mothers to finally catch up to what fathers made in 2022.
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In Mexico City, a plastics ban prompts debate over women's access to tampons

by Rodrigo Cervantes
Apr 20, 2021
Women's rights advocates say the plastics ban leaves low-income women with few options.
Shelves filled with female sanitary products in Mexico City show no tampons as a result of the single-use plastic ban restricting them.
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Training program drives more women to become auto mechanics

by Damon Mitchell
Feb 9, 2021
One Tennessee high school is persevering with its automotive program, even during the pandemic
According to the U.S. Labor Department, under 2% of auto mechanics are women.
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Networking differences may play a role in workplace gender gaps, study finds

by Sabri Ben-Achour and Rose Conlon
Aug 25, 2020
Women connect more closely with fewer people. Men tend to have looser, sparser networks.
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Making a video game about your life

by Sean McHenry
Mar 7, 2019
Catt Small's newest game puts the player in very familiar shoes — her own.
For Catt Small, creator of the game "Sweetheart," game development is about "trying to understand ways to communicate what it means to be a person to other people." 
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How "Murphy Brown" paved the way for women in television

by Kai Ryssdal
Mar 26, 2018
Writer Joy Press explains how the show changed TV history at a time when "there were very limited ways to be a woman on television."
"Murphy Brown" creator Diane English, center, with actors Grant Shaud and Candice Bergen, attend a 25th anniversary event for the show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 2013.
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What does the gender wage gap sound like?

by Peter Balonon-Rosen
Feb 16, 2018
In the U.S., on average, women earn 80 cents for every dollar men make, according to the Department of Labor.
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There's a gender wage gap. Let's talk about it.

by Marketplace Weekend Staff
Feb 12, 2018
We want to hear from you.
An employee for Google works at the internet company's office space inside Chelsea Market in New York City. 
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