According to the National Partnership for Women and Families, women in Arizona are paid 84 cents for every dollar paid to men, a total of a $7,029 wage gap. The wage gap varies even further by race, according to the Arizona Women and the Wage Gap fact sheet, Asian women are paid 81 cents, African…
Eighteen cents. That is the difference between a woman and a man working in Arizona. According to data by the Institute of Women’s Policy Research’s (IWPR) project Status of Women in the States, Arizona ranks 17 out of 51, which includes the 50 states and D.C. For every dollar a man earns in Arizona, a…
Death visits men before women. Men, on average, die about five years earlier than women. Men’s behavior plays a huge role in why they tend to die younger, said Ronald Levant, a professor of psychology at the University of Akron in Ohio. Some men who endorse and conform to “traditional masculine norms” have higher mortality…
The day after his inauguration, women across the globe had a message for President Donald Trump: we will not be silent. The Women’s March on Washington moved millions of women into the streets, dominated the news cycles and elicited an angry tweet from the president. But will it have the power to create lasting…
Erika Barnes, interim athletic director at the University of Arizona, attained a position of power that women rarely experience, overseeing an $85 million budget as well as a nationally-ranked men’s basketball team. And although she has decided not to pursue the permanent position, she understands the challenges facing other women seeking like roles in collegiate athletics….
