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UN Delegates Appalled At The Treatment Of Women In The U.S.

The United Nations sent a delegation of human rights advisors to the United States for 10 days in order to synthesize a report on the treatment of women.

By Maya Dusenbery • 8 years ago

Watch: In new Issa Rae-produced PSA, little kids try to understand the gender pay gap

Issa Rae of Awkward Black Girl teamed up with the Make It Work campaign to produce this PSA on the gender pay gap. The video stars Anika Noni Rose and Gabriel Mann and four lemonade-selling kids, who are not buying the justifications for unequal pay offered by reps from corporate America.

Issa Rae of Awkward Black Girl teamed up with the Make It Work campaign to produce this PSA on the gender pay gap. The video stars Anika Noni Rose and Gabriel Mann and four ...

By Maya Dusenbery • 8 years ago

Chart of the Day: The most elite colleges have the biggest gender pay gaps for alums

The Department of Education recently released a slew of data on graduation rates, student debt, and earnings by alums of all the colleges and universities in the US. One finding: At all the top-ranked schools, there was a significant gender gap in students’ earnings 10 years after graduation.

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

Chart of the Day: Male nurses outearn women by about 5K per year

Men in nursing have earned more than women — $7,700 per year in outpatient settings and nearly $3,900 in hospitals — pretty consistently for the last 25 years. That’s according to a new study of 290,000 nurses that controlled for age, race, marital status, and children in the home.

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

Women business grads earn almost $15,000 less than their male counterparts in their first year out of school

That’s according to a new analysis that pretty thoroughly debunks the myth that the gender pay gap is entirely, or even primarily, due to women’s career choices.

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

Why the NWLC’s video featuring Sarah Silverman “getting a penis” to avoid the gender pay gap fails

This week, the National Women’s Law Center, an organization that does good work, released a video starring Sarah Silverman, a comedian we often love, to highlight the injustice of the gender pay gap, a worthy cause indeed.

Unfortunately, it seems that at some point in the creation of the video, everyone involved forgot that trans people exist. As far as I can tell, that’s the most generous way to explain why the resulting video is such an embarrassingly offensive mess.

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

Chart of the Day: The pay gap narrows by one whole percentage point

Readers, I am forced to humbly apologize to the Senate Republicans. Just this morning, I blamed them for, yet again, blocking legislation to address pay discrimination. But it turns out they might be on to something. According to latest data from the Census Bureau, even without the help of the Paycheck Fairness Act, the gender pay gap narrowed last year from 77 cents to the dollar to…drumroll please!…78 cents!

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

Chart of the Day: Women need a perfect GPA to earn as much as men with a 2.0

We already know that women need a PhD to earn as much as men with a BA, and now a new report on the relationship between high school grade point average (GPA) and income shows that women need a 4.0 GPA to earn as much as men with a 2.0. Via ThinkProgress:

We already know that women need a PhD to earn as much as men with a BA, and now a new report on the relationship between high school grade point average (GPA) and income shows that ...