The Latest Breaking News from gender pay gap

This week, thousands of women across Iceland went on strike to demand greater gender equality. That’s right, Iceland: the country that has ranked highest in the world for gender equality for the past 14 years in a row.

According to organizers of the strike, women make 21% less than men on average. Immigrant women and women who work in sanitation and with children have some of the lowest wages in the country.

Apart from the direct $180 billion boost to public finances, closing the gender pay gap could channel an additional $512.6 billion into the U.S. economy.

In a historic moment for the Catholic Church, women are to vote for the first time at the Synod of Bishops, later this month. Annette Young asks Kate McElwee, the executive director of the Women's Ordination Conference, if we are moving closer to the possibility of having Catholic women priests.…

In an astonishing act of timing, Harvard University’s Professor Claudia Goldin published a paper on Monday titled Why Women Won. It mapped milestone moments in women’s rights in the United States from 1905 to 2023.

Women stirred up a “quiet revolution” in the labour market, according to Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She is the 2023 winner of the Nobel prize in economics for her analysis of gender differences in the labour market, particularly the persistent problem of the…

In Netflix’s Fair Play, a couple crumbles when the woman is promoted, an experience many can relate to as the gender pay gap tightens

Australia has made steady progress on closing the gender pay gap but it has started to stall, with some businesses taking leaps and others doing the minimum.

Most employees don’t like to talk about how much they earn. Many are simply afraid to. But breaking that taboo can transform life – especially for women and people of colour