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Gender pay gap

Gender wage gap widens for the first time in two decades

by Samantha Fields
Sep 12, 2024
Men who work full-time year-round saw their wages rise by 3%, while women who work full-time year-round only saw their wages go up 1.5%.
This is the first time the gender pay gap has widened in a statistically significant way since 2003.
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15 years later, the federal minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour

by Caleigh Wells
Jul 24, 2024
It's the longest stretch of time Congress has gone without raising the federal minimum wage.
The federal minimum wage has the lowest purchasing power since 1949. Above, Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks on raising the federal minimum wage in 2023.
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House GOP threatens to defund office that studies, advocates for working women

by Savannah Peters
Nov 14, 2023
House Republicans recommended eliminating the budget for the Labor Department's Women's Bureau. Here's what could be lost if that happens.
House Republicans have recommended eliminating the $23 million budget of the Women's Bureau as a cost-cutting measure.
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Entrepreneurship can narrow the gender pay gap, but it's not a perfect solution.

by Justin Ho
Oct 24, 2023
Three women entrepreneurs talk about their experiences starting their own businesses, and whether it helped them get better pay and flexibility.
For some women, running their own business can give them more flexibility to care for kids or spend time with family. But it's still an imperfect solution to the gender pay gap.
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Nobel Prize winner Claudia Goldin on remote work's potential to narrow gender pay gaps

by David Brancaccio , Ariana Rosas and Erika Soderstrom
Oct 13, 2023
Claudia Goldin, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in economics, discusses the impact of care responsibilities disproportionately falling on women.
"It's not just the person who has the greater care responsibilities who is giving up something," said Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin, "but it's the other person who is living a life of the high-flyer, but is not going to see his child take her first step."
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Economic historian Claudia Goldin wins Nobel Prize in economics for research on gender pay gap

by David Brancaccio and Chris Farrell
Oct 9, 2023
Claudia Goldin's work explores women's experience of the labor market and what factors drive the gender gap.
Claudia Goldin is announced as the 2023 Nobel Prize winner in economics in Sweden on Monday.
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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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Global gender gap is closing, but parity is more than 100 years away, report says

by Lily Jamali
Jun 21, 2023
The World Economic Forum says in some countries, women's status is declining, and global gender parity is 131 years away.
The United States ranks 43rd in the world in gender parity, according to the World Economic Forum report.
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Sallie Krawcheck on what the pandemic means for women's finances

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Jul 27, 2021
The CEO of Ellevest and former Wall Street executive says the pandemic has widened the gender wealth gap.
"It's exactly someone like me who should be using my privilege ... in order to build this," Sallie Krawcheck says of Ellevest, her digital financial company for women.
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How Angel City Football Club wants to turn its mission of equality into a global brand

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Jun 22, 2021
The women's soccer team was founded in part as a response to the pay disparity between male and female athletes.
Angel City Football Club President Julie Uhrman. She wants to show that women's soccer “deserves the attention and the revenue the male teams just get without trying."
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