Today’s Gender Pay Gap Data Shows Decline in Progress Towards Equity
AAUW analysis of U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics reveals $11,550 average annual loss for full-time working women due to pay disparity.
AAUW analysis of U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics reveals $11,550 average annual loss for full-time working women due to pay disparity.
There is more than one equal pay day to mark how the gender pay gap is wider for many women of color.
The labor force participation rate — that is those working or looking for work — for women with children under 18 was 71.5% in 2018.
Women make up the majority of nontenure-track lecturers and instructors across institutions, but only 44% of tenure-track faculty and 36% of full professors. Women of color are especially underrepresented in college faculty and staffs.
AAUW advocates opposition to the use of public funds for nonpublic elementary and secondary education and to charter schools that do not adhere to the same civil rights and accountability…
Attitudes and expectations about how girls and boys perform academically — and behave socially — push children toward certain pathways. It's time to open all roads to everyone, regardless of…
Over half a century after pay discrimination became illegal in the United States, a persistent pay gap between men and women continues to hurt our nation’s workers and our national…
Overall, women working full time in the U.S. make 82% of what men do. And collectively, the pay gap costs working women more than $500 billion a year.
The country’s demographics are rapidly changing—and the workforce is becoming increasingly more diverse.