The unemployment numbers look encouraging, but black women still get the short end of the stick.

Trump is a wrecking ball of male ego, who has rolled over women from his Manhattan playboy days to the presidency. Now in the Oval Office, his sexism is magnified by his need for the Religious Right as a base. He has weakened equal pay laws, restated the Gag Rule and lined up a Supreme Court nominee who wants to reverse Roe vs. Wade. The man is waging a war on women. His presidency is …

Wisconsin must pay the gender reassignment surgery for two transgender Medicaid recipients, a federal judge in Madison has ruled. What happened? Cody Flack of Green Bay and Sara Ann Makenzie of Baraboo filed a lawsuit in April that claimed that Wisconsin's denial of coverage for transgender surgeries violated the Affordable Care Act and their "equal protection rights," the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. A rule that excludes coverage of “undefined transsexual surgery" was adopted in 1996, the report said. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge William Conley granted a preliminary injunction to bar enforcement of the rule. Conley also suggested the injunction be expanded to include “any transgender Medicaid patient whose doctor recommends the surgery,” according to the report. “The likelihood of ongoing, irreparable harm facing these two individual plaintiffs outweighs any marginal impacts on the defendants' stated concerns regarding public health or limiting costs," Conley wrote in a 39-page order. Have they planned surgeries? Flack, 30, could get …

When Carrie Gracie discovered that her salary was lower than that of her male peers, she blamed herself. But wage disparities are a social problem with far-reaching effects.

Sooner or later, every terrorist group comes out with a list of demands. The violent, ultra-feminist group in AMC’s Dietland is no exception as they finally make their demands known in the June 18 episode “F…This.” What a surprise, it involves equal pay plus reparations.

“Great turnout for #ChangetheRules rally in Canberra today. #Greens will change our IR laws to help make Australia more equal, with decent pay & secure jobs”

The latest in the heist series pays lip service to women's equality, but the gang can't quite get its message straight.

"Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions." William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, 1593. On May 21 Australian Greens deputy leader Adam Bandt introduced a small but potentially significant private member's bill into the House of Representatives. It is a bill to re-establish "old fashions", like fairness, equity and justice. The bill is a key step towards taming the gig economy because it re-asserts rules that have been ignored to accommodate odd, and not so nice, inventions. The Fair Work Amendment (Making Australia More Equal) Bill 2018 aims to classify so-called "gig economy" workers as employees to give them minimum pay and workers’ rights.

Actress Salma Hayek said that male actors should be open to voluntarily accepting a pay cut if they're serious about evening the playing field in Hollywood's gender wage disparity. What are the details? Hayek, who has made claims to have been personally victimized by disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein, is leading the charge against Hollywood to change its policies with an eye toward evening out the industry's wage gap. "It is not just the producers," Hayek said Sunday at a Women in Motion talk at the Cannes Film Festival. "It is actors, too." Hayek — who has been a vocal supporter of the #MeToo and Time's Up movements — then called "time's up" on the entertainment industry's wage gap. "Time's up. You had a good run but it is time now to be generous with the actresses," she added. "If actors ask such inflated fees it will leave nothing for actresses. If the movie's budget …

Americans will spend $23 billion to honor Mother's Day. But equal pay would be a better way to give back to mothers, says Anne York, PhD.

Arizona leaders dealing with an unprecedented teacher strike are paying the political price for long-festering resentment among many public school teachers who say they are fed up with lagging salaries and what they see as an equally dangerous attack on their profession: school vouchers.

A new memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, seeks to honor the victims of lynchings in the United States, and to prevent the memory of those crimes from being forgotten. What's the background of the memorial? The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which officially opens on Thursday, will seek to pay tribute to thousands of African-American victims of lynchings. Eight hundred steel columns hanging from the roof of the memorial represent counties across the country where lynchings occurred. Etched in each column are the names of the victims from that county. But the victims were more than just names on a column, and the memorial takes this into an account. Short summaries of the horrors that these people had to endure, some of them incredibly graphic. Statues outside the memorial attempt to illustrate the suffering of slaves in chains, and families being torn apart. The memorial was produced by the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative. According to …

Though Trump has focused on women’s issues, she’s defended her father’s rollback of an Obama-era rule aimed at closing the gender pay gap.

You’ve probably heard already. April 10, was “Equal Pay Day,” a symbolic day media, politicians and celebrities use each year to complain about gender-based pay discrimination — by abusing a statistic that does not illustrate that.

Advocates are demanding equitable policies such as paid parental leave and affordable childcare while also declaring "we must address harassment and discrimination!"

April 10 is recognized as Equal Pay Day by online feminists, despite the fact that equal pay was achieved in the United States more than five decades ago. No matter, since logic and reason hasn’t stopped feminism yet. The season 7 premiere of Fox’s New Girl emphasizes that perfectly by throwing a empowering women-themed birthday party…for a three-year-old.

The United Arab Emirates’ cabinet approved a bill guaranteeing equal pay for men and women.

Nearly 10 years after President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, the woman it was named for is still fighting the fix the gender pay gap.

Opinion: Tuesday is Equal Pay Day. It's worth taking a deeper look at the data to find out what it means.

While it is true that the median full-time female worker makes just 83% of what her male counterpart makes, it’s wrong to assume that this is solely, or even mostly, due to discrimination.

A watchdog group sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its failure to respond to a public records request on first daughter Ivanka Trump’s role in a decision to roll back an Obama-era rule aimed at closing the wage gap between men and women.

First daughter Ivanka Trump, who on her father’s campaign trail vowed to push to close the gap between the wages of men and women, did not rush to remark on the arrival of Equal Pay Day on Tuesday. The actions taken by the Trump administration, in which, as a senior adviser, she plays an important role, may help explain why.

“Closing the gender pay gap is good for people and good for business — that's why @Bloomberg supports equal pay. #EqualPayDay https://t.co/1ljtojSbHY”

On Equal Pay Day, Americans are reminded that women earn 80% of what men make. But that disparity can vary widely depending on the location.

On Equal Pay Day, the congresswoman spoke with HuffPost about inequality in the workplace.

On Equal Pay Day 2018, a look at the UK's giant data collection effort.

A day before playing in the 2005 final at the All England Club, Venus Williams addressed a meeting of the Grand Slam Board, urging Wimbledon and the French Open to offer equal pay to male and female players.

Thousands of early childhood educators around Australia walked off the job for the third time in 12 months on March 27, as part of the ongoing Big Steps campaign for equal and professional pay. The walk-off came about because of the federal government’s failure to meet the February 1 deadline educators and their union, United Voice, had set for a response to their demand for a fair pay increase. Educators understand that families cannot afford higher childcare fees. This is especially true of working women, as the gender pay gap is a reality in all sectors. Instead, the campaign is demanding that early childhood education and care be sufficiently funded by the federal government.

About 1 in 5 women and 1 in 10 men who work for a large federal agency say they have been sexually harassed on the job. And if they wish to formally accuse their harasser and pursue some sort of consequences, they must make their claim quickly and then settle in for a long, difficult adjudication process that will likely stretch on for several years. In one case highlighted by The Washington Post, a Justice Department attorney named Christy McCormick spent seven years securing a recommendation from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for her harassment complaint against two male supervisors. The EEOC found in her favor, but nine years after the harassment happened, she has yet to receive back pay or damages. "I almost gave up numerous times," she said of the process. "They push you so hard to give up." After experiencing harassment, federal workers must file a claim within 45 days (private sector employees often have up to 300 days). Then they must go through an EEOC probe, which takes 1,300 days (just over three and a half years) on average, a delay that also has serious negative consequences for the falsely accused. When the EEOC does reach a conclusion, it "can only recommend that a harasser be disciplined or fired," the Post reports. "It cannot order action, and agencies are not required to report whether they took any." Read the full Washington Post report here. Bonnie Kristian

  More than 6000 early childhood educators walked off the job on March 27 for the third time in 12 months to demand equal pay. In addition, more than 30,000 parents made other arrangements for their children, or kept them at home, to stand in solidarity with childcare workers. The walk-off is part of a nationwide day of action called by the workers’ union United Voice prompted by the failure of the Malcolm Turnbull government to act on equal pay. Early childhood educators are among the lowest paid professionals in Australia. United Voice members told Green Left Weekly: “$21 an hour does not reflect the value of our work, or the value of the children we educate. Educators earn half the average wage despite high levels of qualifications. We study for between 18 months and four years.