Martha Burk

While news outlets have been obsessed with much-touted infighting between factions of the Democratic party while negotiating President Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) plan, they’ve completely missed the real villains.Big surprise: It’s big business—specifically big oil—and their single-minded focus:…

Virtually hidden in last week’s job numbers hype was some terrible news for women: 27 times more men than women joined the labor force last month. As the pandemic (hopefully)

While the unemployment rates for men declined in February, the jobless rates for women showed little or no change over the month. And while the statistic for the entire female population lumped together basically stayed even with the month before, Black women lost ground.Maybe the real headline shou…

A new report on the gender pay gap might make us hopeful—but there are factors not reflected in these numbers. Even still, reports show overall upwards trends for young women’s earnings. It would be easy to conclude that this means the gender pay gap will be gone in a few years as these young women…

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Title IX, which prohibits gender discrimination in educational programs or activities. Because almost all schools receive federal funds, the law applies in nearly every educational context. Most people associate Title IX with athletics, where it has indeed had…

In this 50th anniversary year of Title IX, we revisit an interview with Billie Jean King on her activism and career.

The Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law on Tuesday by President Biden, will benefit women for years to come. The new law will limit the amount Medicare recipients have to

Medicare drug negotiation has been a long time coming—58 years to be exact. It’s about time. But it’s also about money, especially for women.

Advocates are pressuring the EEOC to reverse a Trump-era order that halted the agency’s collection of gender and racial pay data.

As voters decide who is to blame for inflation (Biden, Harris or Trump), corporations continue to rake in the profits—at consumers’ expense.