Sixty years ago Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, which has resulted in significant gains for female employees toward achieving “equal pay for equal work.” What Does The Equal Pay Act Do? The Equal ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Jennings is CEO of the Lambda Legal organization, a prominent advocate for LGBTQ rights. He sees his mission in part as fulfilling that hallowed American principle: “All men are ...

The Biden administration should restart the collection of employer pay data, convene a new interagency equal pay task force, undertake an initiative to promote greater pay transparency, and designate ...

Our respect for equality has a long and storied history in America. From the very beginnings of our nation, we declared the concept central to our principles with the bold-for-its-time proclamation ...

Three-fourths of U.S. states have ratified the amendment, and many argue it is the 28th Amendment to the Constitution; Women’s Equality Day serves as a reminder of the amendment’s importance. A ...

It's no secret that women earn less than men. This disparity, referred to as the "gender pay gap," is a statistical indicator of women's wages relative to men's. For every dollar a man earns, white ...

On the first day of class in the fall of 1924, Martha Lum walked into the Rosedale Consolidated School. The mission-style building had been built three years earlier for white students in Rosedale, ...

On Wednesday, Virginia became the 38th state to vote to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment — thus fulfilling the requirement that three-quarters of the states must approve an Amendment in order to add ...

Billy Porter narrates 'Equal,' HBO Max's glossy four-part docuseries about all the queer progress that led to Stonewall. By Inkoo Kang Television Critic The story of LGBTQ progress since World War II ...

While the S&P 500 is up 8.5% this year, the majority of that performance is being driven by just a handful of the stocks. Traditionally, the equal-weight index has performed a bit better because it ...

The drawbacks to cap-weighted ETFs are that they can be heavily dependent on a few large- and mega-cap names and they reduce diversification. In equal-weight ETFs, each stock is given roughly the same ...