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GOP Candidates Have Little Good to Say About Equal Pay

By Sharon Johnson ● Politics ● September 30, 2015

So far, only Trump, Fiorina and Graham have commented on the gender pay gap during the campaign, but they all have track records on this issue. Here’s a quick run-down of what we could find.

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Robots Haunt the Fight for $15 Minimum Wage

By Elizabeth Zwerling ● Employment ● September 10, 2015

Automation is changing the nature of work in ways that some compare to the industrial revolution. That’s causing some concern about the fate of low-paying service sectors where women dominate.

Tech Women in India’s Startup Boom Reach Out

By Gagandeep Kaur ● Employment ● August 10, 2015

Neeru Sharma says it took passion and conviction to start her online retail outlet. That’s a message more women in India’s male-dominated and high-powered startup environment need to hear.

My Mom Taught Me Why Minimum Wage is Women’s Issue

By Jeannie Rickey & Por Alison Bowen ● Employment ● August 4, 2015

She woke up every morning at 4:30 a.m., made lunches, cooked a hot breakfast for the family (I’m talking bacon and eggs) and then drove an hour north of where we lived to work in an enclosed room with no ventilation, applying airplane glue to seams on rainwear.

Teens Explore Gender Wage Gap Solutions

By Rose Shannon, Helen Malhotra & Por Alison Bowen ● Employment ● April 14, 2015

On Equal Pay Day, a Teen Voices videographer in Washington, D.C., finds out what her classmates think of the gap and their suggestions to fix the problem.

Wage Segregation Robs Women in Peak Earning Years

By Sharon Johnson ● Employment ● March 2, 2015

It could account for 7 percent to 10 percent of the wage gap but there’s so little data it’s hard to know. After 5,000 New York school guards won a big settlement last year the family of one 45-year-old mother of two suddenly had $7,000 more a year.

San Francisco Aims To Close Pay Gap

By Robin Hindery ● Employment ● December 8, 2014

Supervisor David Campos introduced the legislation in the hope it will have national influence on income inequality policy. A source of San Francisco’s divide between “haves and have-nots,” he says, is the gap in how men and women are being paid.

Subminimum Wage Plus Tips Don’t Add up to a Living

By Melissa Josephs ● Employment ● October 14, 2014

In my own experience, tips were based on how much you flirted or laughed at crude or sexist jokes. That’s no way to earn a living and it breeds a culture of harassment flagged by the “Glass Floor” study released last week.

NFL Toughens DV Policy; Emmys’ Host Debases Latina

By WeNews Staff ● Arts & Culture ● August 30, 2014

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has said that effective immediately there will be tougher penalties for any NFL employee found to have engaged in domestic violence or assault. Also this week, at the Emmys Bruce Rosenblum, chairman of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, asked actress Sofia Vergara to step onto a pedestal and show off her curves.

Pregnancy Requests Put Women in the Firing Line

By Crystal Lewis ● Crime & Law ● August 12, 2014

Women of color and those earning low wages are least likely to be accommodated during their pregnancies. It’s also acute for women in traditionally male-dominated industries. “I wanted to work,” says a music conductor who asked for a stool while she worked under hot lights.