The gender pay gap, a metric of how much more money men make than women, has been steadily shrinking for half a century. But now, it’s starting to widen again. New data released by the U.S. Census ...

The recent memo from OPM Acting Director Rob Shriver on pay equity coincidentally was issued within days of a related statement from the Society for Human Resource Management that sets forth a change ...

Clarissa Horsfall demonstrates at a 2017 rally in Miami in support of equal pay for equal work. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Quality Journalism for Critical Times In 2024, most American women go ...

The Office of Personnel Management on Thursday encouraged federal agencies to conduct their own analyses to correct potential pay disparities within their workforces. In 2021, President Biden signed a ...

Equity Pay Day shows the economic inequality between men and women. In 2025, women in the U.S. needed to work until March 25 to earn what a man earned in the previous year. For Hispanic women, Pay ...

Despite progress in closing the gender pay gap, U.S. women still earn about 15% less than men on average, and at the current pace, full pay equity won’t occur until 2048, according to an Aug. 8 report ...

Today is Equal Pay Day in the United States. Equal Pay Day represents the number of days women have to work into the current year just to make the same amount of money men made in the prior one. This ...

The National Urban League recently hosted the New York State Council on Women and Girls for a panel discussion on Black Women’s Pay Equity Day, featuring a distinguished group of women leaders led by ...

Lynn Norment, a columnist for The Commercial Appeal, is a former editor for Ebony Magazine. From the beginning of my work life decades ago on through today, discussions and statistics about equal pay ...