Women’s and Gender Issues

Employers often rely on self-promotion to make decisions about hiring, promoting and offering raises to their employees, and self-evaluations are not only an inevitable part of measuring performance at our jobs, but a perfect opportunity …

Last week, the World Economic Forum released its Global Gender Gap report for 2020, and there’s not much good news in it. But perhaps the grimmest outlook in its data? None of us will see …

Ankeny-based Casey’s General Stores Inc. last week was honored by the Women’s Forum of New York for the company’s work advancing gender parity in the boardroom. Casey’s current board of directors includes five women, who …

While most research shows women make 83 cents to a man’s dollar, a new study confirms that gap is even wider among women with a Bachelor’s degree. 

According to a recent analysis by the U.S. …

In preparation for the 2020 presidential election, the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women in Politics last week launched a blog that will look at candidates campaigning in Iowa through a gendered lens.

On June …

In the last 27 years, the world has seen a less than 2 percent improvement in the number of women entering the workforce, and a new report is calling for “a quantum leap of transformative …