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The Gender Pay Gap by The New York Times Editorial Staff (Editor) Despite increasing awareness, the gender pay gap has yet to close. In 2018, women still earned about eighty cents for every dollar men did, and that number changes when factoring in a woman's education level, profession, and ethnicity. These articles explore the discussion surrounding the gender pay gap, and highlight how our understanding of it has evolved in the past decade. Beginning with Obama's signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in his first weeks as president and leading to some of the complicated economics of paid family leave, these articles explore the factors that create a gender pay gap and point to possible solutions.
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ISBN: 9781642821178
Publication Date: 2018-12-15
The pink tax : dismantling a financial system designed to keep women broke by Janine Rogan The Pink Tax is a financially feminist approach to closing the gender wealth gap and reaching economic equality for women through smashing the pink tax, breaking down bias, and dismantling a financial system built by men, for men.
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ISBN: 9781774583708
Publication Date: 2023-05-03
The Gender Pay Gap by Fatma Abdel-Raouf; Patricia M. Buhler The book shines a light on the wide-ranging effects of the gap, including women's poverty rates, student loans, economic growth, childhood poverty, and corporate profits, and offers insights to help close it with best practices of select organizations. Upper-level undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive education students will appreciate the clarity and conciseness of this guide to understanding and solving an important human resources issue. The inclusion of a brief instructor's manual and PowerPoint slides for each chapter differentiates this book and adds to the ease of adoption in both the academic and corporate setting
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ISBN: 9780367435066
Publication Date: 2020-10-08
Women Vs. Capitalism: Why We Can't Have It All in a Free Market Economy by Vicky Price Pryce urgently calls for feminists to focus attention on this pressing issue: the pay gap, the glass ceiling, and the obstacles to women working at all. Only with government intervention in the labour market will these long-standing problems finally be conquered. From the gendered threat of robot labour to the lack of women in economics itself, this is a sharp look at an uncomfortable truth: we will not achieve equality for women in our society without radical changes to Western capitalism.
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ISBN: 9781787383630
Publication Date: 2019

Podcasts

The Gender Gap Series: Where The Gender Pay Gap Is Widest (The Indicator from Planet Money, August 12, 2019)
HerMoney podcast HerMoney is a new digital media company focused on improving the relationships women have with money. Our mission is to level the playing field for financial security, confidence and power with content that is welcoming, thought-provoking, bold, unbiased and always smart.
Bad With Money With Gabe Dunn Comedian and New York Times best-selling author Gabe Dunn (aka America’s Deadbeat Sweetheart) unapologetically examines the intersection of finances and social justice. Every week, Gabe brings a queer, feminist, unabashedly radical point of view to conversations with journalists, politicians, activists, and fellow deadbeats.
Women At Work Women face gender discrimination throughout our careers. It doesn't have to derail our ambitions — but how do we prepare to deal with it? There's no workplace orientation session about narrowing the wage gap, standing up to interrupting male colleagues, or taking on many other issues we encounter at work. So HBR staffers Amy Bernstein, Amy Gallo, and Emily Caulfield are untangling some of the knottiest problems. They interview experts on gender, tell stories about their own experiences, and give lots of practical advice to help you succeed in spite of the obstacles.

Articles & Reports

Equal Pay in the Federal Government, EEOC/OPM Joint Memorandum
Governmentwide Strategy on Advancing Pay Equality in Federal Government from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management On May 10, 2013, President Obama signed a memorandum to the heads of executive departments and agencies (agencies) on Advancing Pay Equality in theFederal Government and Learning from Successful Practices. This memorandum directed the Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to submit to the President aGovernmentwide strategy to address any gender pay gap in the Federal workforce.
Gender pay gap in U.S. hasn’t changed much in two decades; March 2023
Hard to tell how much impact EO will have on federal pay equity; March 2022
Women in the Workforce; U.S. Accountability Office; March 2023
Just Who Are You "Equal" To Under the Equal Pay Act?; Forbes; August 2019
5 Fast Facts: The Gender Wage Gap; U.S. Dept of Labor; March 2023
The Persistence of Pay Inequality: The Gender Pay Gap in An Anonymous Online Labor Market; PLoS ONE; February 2020 Studies of the gender pay gap are seldom able to simultaneously account for the range of alternative putative mechanisms underlying it. Using CloudResearch, an online microtask platform connecting employers to workers who perform research-related tasks, we examine whether gender pay discrepancies are still evident in a labor market characterized by anonymity, relatively homogeneous work, and flexibility.
What Is the Gender Wage Gap in Your State?; U.S. Census Bureau; March 2022
What Women, Employers, and the Government Can Do About the Gender Pay Gap; PBS; April 2019
Women in the Labor Force: A Databook; December 2019; Bureau of Labor Statistics In 2018, 57.1 percent of all women participated in the labor force. This was about the same as the 57.0 percent who participated in 2017, and still about 3 percentage points below the peak of 60.0 percent in 1999. By comparison, the labor force participation rate for men was 69.1 percent in 2018, unchanged from the previous year and 17.5 percentage points below its peak of 86.6 percent in 1948.
Gender Pay Gap Statistics In 2023; Forbes; February 2023

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Policy and Advocacy Organizations

American Association of University Women (AAUW) Though we are nonpartisan, we are not values-neutral: We fight to remove the barriers and biases that stand in the way of gender equity. We train women to negotiate for pay and benefits and to pursue leadership roles. And we advocate for federal, state and local laws and policies to ensure equity and end discrimination.
Center for American Progress The Center for American Progress is an independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans, through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action. Their aim is not just to change the conversation, but to change the country.
Economic Policy Institute The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank created in 1986 to include the needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy discussions. EPI believes every working person deserves a good job with fair pay, affordable health care, and retirement security. To achieve this goal, EPI conducts research and analysis on the economic status of working America. EPI proposes public policies that protect and improve the economic conditions of low- and middle-income workers and assesses policies with respect to how they affect those workers
Equal Pay International Coalition EPIC is the Equal Pay International Coalition. Led by the ILO, UN Women, and the OECD. The Coalition’s goal is to achieve equal pay for women and men everywhere. By bringing together a diverse set of actors with different areas of focus and expertise, EPIC supports governments, employers, workers, and their organizations to make concrete and coordinated progress towards this goal. EPIC is currently the only multi-stakeholder partnership working to reduce the gender pay gap at the global, regional and national levels.
Equal Pay Today Campaign launched on the 50th Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act by national and state-based women’s rights organizations, calls for an end to the gender wage gap that persists in nearly every industry and profession in the country. The Equal Pay Today Campaign calls to end inequitable pay practices and close the loopholes in existing laws that contribute to women making less than men.
Institute for Women's Policy Research The Institute for Women’s Policy Research conducts and communicates research to inspire public dialogue, shape policy, and improve the lives and opportunities of women of diverse backgrounds, circumstances, and experiences. We are the leading think tank in the United States applying quantitative and qualitative analysis of public policy through a gendered lens.
Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor Women in the workforce are vital to the nation's economic security. The Women's Bureau develops policies and standards and conducts inquiries to safeguard the interests of working women; to advocate for their equality and economic security for themselves and their families; and to promote quality work environments.

Journals and Databases

Publications from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
North American Journal of Economics and Finances ISSN: 1062-9408 The North-American Journal of Economics and Finance publishes high-quality, original manuscripts in financial economics. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Stock market; Financial intermediation and capital markets; Law and finance, financial institutions; Integration of financial markets; International finance; Corporate governance; Information and security markets; Behavioral finance; Hedging and risk management; Corporate financial policy; Financial econometrics; Other applied topics in micro and macroeconomics.
Journal of Financial Economic Policy ISSN: 1757-6385 The Journal of Financial Economic Policy is devoted to the advancement of the understanding of the entire spectrum of financial policy and control issues and their interactions to economic phenomena. Economic and financial phenomena involve complex trade-offs and linkages between various types of risk factors and variables of interest to policy makers and market participants alike. Market participants such as economic policy makers, regulators, banking and competition supervisors, corporations and financial institutions, require timely and robust answers to the contemporary and emerging policy questions.
American Economic Review ISSN: 0002-8282 | eISSN 1944-7981 The American Economic Review is a general-interest economics journal. Established in 1911, the AER is among the nation's oldest and most respected scholarly journals in economics.
Race, Gender, and Class ISSN: 1082-8354 Race, Gender & Class publishes articles of 15-25 pages, notes of 5-10 pages, review essays on books or films, autobiographies, essays, data sets, theories, stories, field work studies, and letters to the journal promoting interdisciplinary and multicultural studies focusing on race, gender and class intersection issues.