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.

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. A new study shows most women believe the gender pay gap exists, but only a third think it ...

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, ...

Men and women earn unequal pay. Here’s why—and what we can do to close the gap. Have you ever wondered why Equal Pay Day exists? Equal Pay Day symbolizes just how far into the year women have to work ...

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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 ...

Equal Pay Day highlights the gender pay gap by marking just how far into the new year full-time female workers have to keep working to make what their male counterparts made in just the previous year.

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 ...

Though the gender pay gap has significantly narrowed since the 1980s, progress has slowed over the last two decades, according to new research. Women in 2022 made 82 cents for every dollar earned by ...