The uncontrolled gender pay gap grew slightly in 2026, with women now earning $0.82 per dollar earned by men, down from $0.83 last year, according to a Tuesday report by compensation vendor Payscale.

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The gender pay gap widened two years in a row for the first time ever. Here's why it's a business risk and what HR leaders should do about it now.

Pay transparency can reduce the gender gap during salary negotiations, though other factors such as aggressiveness and competitiveness also come into play, according to recent research. For instance, ...

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New research indicates that while the gender pay gap has been closing for decades, progress has nearly stalled since the mid-1990s — and women aren't benefiting from the incremental improvements. That ...

As more women graduated from US colleges in the 1970s, they began to close the pay gap. From the mid-1980s on, women graduates have outnumbered men. But sometime in the 1990s, the gap between male and ...

For nearly two decades, the negotiation skills of working women have frequently been blamed for the gender pay gap. New research by Vanderbilt Professor Jessica A. Kennedy finds the gender difference ...