When working women have children, they experience a permanent setback in their likelihood of working and a big but temporary drop in earnings. New U.S. Census Bureau research shows that the share of women who are working falls by 18 percentage points in the quarter...
A new study finds women are less likely than men to receive honest feedback at work, hindering gender equality in the workplace. Published this month in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, the findings reveal women at work are more often told white lies...
After World War II, many women in industrial jobs put down their wrenches. But the spirit of Rosie the Riveter couldn’t be denied. World War II was a huge upheaval in the United States, touching every sphere of life: economic, financial, cultural, and social. Gender...
The index ranks nations by how close they are to completely closing the gender gap. By: Douglas Broom Women only have three-quarters of the employment rights of men worldwide. In Middle East and North African women still have half the rights of men. Much remains to be...
Bringing up gender again—really? That may be the response one gets in the year 2019, after all, we are heading into 20 years of the 21st century. We are in the age of “The Cognitive Revolution, ” our technology grows by leaps and bounds and yet, we still see a gender...
Dive Brief: The “Celluloid Ceiling” report released Jan. 3 reveals that although the number of women working behind the camera reached a historic high in 2019, men continue to outnumber women 4-to-1 in key behind-the-scenes roles. Women comprised 20% of...
