Category Archives: Equal Pay

The gender pay gap is real, and it hurts women and families. It’s not myth, it’s math. Did you know that in 2014, women working full time in the United States were paid on average just 79 percent of what men were paid? Even one year out of college, within the same major, field andContinue reading “The High Cost of Unequal Pay”

Via Jezebel: On October 24, 1975, the women of Iceland decided they would stop woman-ing in a massive protest for the same rights as men. On that day, known as Women’s Day Off, 90 percent of the country’s women refused to go to work or do chores or care for their children, to call forContinue reading “40 Years Ago, Iceland’s Women Decided They Had Had Enough”