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After Democrats’ 11th-hour attempt to increase the second direct stimulus payment to $2,000, Americans will receive only $600 from the long-awaited C

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Let Them Eat $600 Cake!

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October 29th is Latinx Women’s Equal Pay Day. But what is Equal Pay Day, and what does it mean for the state of the gender and racial pay gap?

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This Map Gives Your State A Letter Grade Based On Its Gender Pay Gap

How many times have you heard the stat that women make around 80 cents for every dollar a man makes? Currently, the number is around 82 cents — and it’

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A new report on equal pay paints a grim future for women, one where women will continue to be disadvantaged in the workplace until the year 2277. That’s

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This weekend at Essence Fest, Senator Kamala Harris of California announced a comprehensive plan to address the racial wealth gap if elected president in 2

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For all of the important conversations had about equal pay — most dominantly, the fact that white women only make 79 cents for every buck paid to the ave

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Is Ellen Pompeo Right About How We React To Successful Women?

Grey’s Anatomy’s Ellen Pompeo is indisputably killing the game. She stars as the title character of a wildly successful, long-running TV show (there is

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Some of the biggest names in Hollywood have come together to set right a decades-old problem plaguing the industry: a significant pay gap between male and

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Not all superheros wear capes. One anonymous woman has been fighting gender inequality in the art world for decades by doling out over $5.5 million in gran

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The Supreme Court's Janus Ruling Is A Blow To Black Women

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Florence Welch Joins The Fight Against Gender Inequality

Musician Florence Welch (of Florence + the Machine) is doing her part to help even up the gender wage gap. She spoke up and demanded co-production credits

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In scanning the press release for Christina Aguilera's forthcoming album, Liberation, something jumped out at me: the part where it says “execut

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Family planning isn't only about contraception and figuring out how to not have kids; it’s being intentional in one's approach to pregnancy for

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