Women

Welcome Women Graduates. Now We'd Like to Teach You to Negotiate

24 May 2012

The gender wage and income gap is real, exists for women who work the same jobs, the same number of hours and just as diligently as their male peers, begins "the minute the graduate throws her cap in the air" and could well condemn tens to hundreds of thousands of women to poverty in their elder years.

Gov. Brown's Budget Forsakes California Women

24 May 2012

By Susan Rose commentator Thursday, May 24, 2012 In California, women and children are falling behind and the governor?s proposed budget will only accelerate those trends. Susan Rose urges legislators to read the impact statement of the Women?s Foundation and make bold revisions fast. ? (WOMENSENEWS) ? The revised budget that California Gov. Jerry Brown ...

Why Is Economic Growth Sometimes Bad for Women?

24 May 2012

The triumph of women in the American office place has been perhaps the greatest economic story of the last century. In 1900, only 19 percent of women participated in the labor force. In 112 years, that ...