In 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment, designed to guarantee protection against sexual discrimination for women under the law, passed both houses of Congress and was sent to the individual states for ...

Among millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996), women investors opened 31.3% more ... The account balance size for Gen Xers may reflect the fact that these folks have logged a good couple ...

Created with Sketch. Imposter syndrome was first documented in high-achieving women in the 1970s. While imposter syndrome is still more prevalent among women, and specifically women of color ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 24 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial ...

Peonage, also called debt slavery or debt servitude, is a system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work. Legally, peonage was outlawed by Congress in 1867. However, after ...

In four years, American industrial production, already the world's largest, doubled in size. "You felt that you ... While 16 million men and women marched to war, 24 million more moved in search ...

The venture capital firm designed to invest in minority- and women-owned businesses recently sued the City and County of Denver.… The fall comes despite observing record levels of passenger ...

LASIK (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) has been a leading vision correction surgery since first becoming available in 1999. It’s typically performed by ophthalmologists (eye surgeons) on ...

Relative to the size of their populations, however, Kentucky (7.7 victims per 1 million residents), Maryland (7.1) and Alabama (6.7) have seen the highest rates over that six-year period ...

In its most recent annual report, it also said that both racial and ethnic minority and women employees in the U.S. earned more, on average, than their counterparts who are men. “The way I think ...

What’s more, 37% of men and 42% of women in this age group rely on Social Security benefits for more than half their income. Recent decades have seen a sea change in how retirement is funded.

Men earn more than women for full-time work in every age range The gender pay gap was 7.7% in April 2023* (down slightly from 8.3% in April 2022) There remains a large difference in the gender pay ...