The problem? Male jobs pay more—way more. The median annual wage for computer programmers was $74,280 in 2012, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and it was $53,400 for kindergarten teachers. Many women would need to change fields in order to make all workplaces in America have about a 50/50 gender split.
Mississippi wants to execute a 56-year-old mentally ill woman Thursday even though no one now seems to believe that she murdered the husband who had battered and abused her for years. Mississippi wants its pound of flesh. But why from Michelle Byrom?
An interview with Eric Foner, Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.
The new version of the exam has tougher questions and a higher registration fee--plus it requires computer proficiency.
The billionaire conservatives join the ranks of business interests trying to rein in the GOP's base, but it has turned into an unstoppable force.
While national attitudes about abortion have stayed relatively the same since the 1990s, regional attitudes are shifting in opposite directions.
Amid the ruckus over its voting rights and gay marriage rulings, the justices quietly accepted a pair of cases that could make it nearly impossible for private sector unions to organize new members.
Colorado has crippled its own ability to tax. And now some citizens say that's depriving them of their right to a republican government.
When someone says that most Americans oppose race-based affirmative action, what they really mean is most White Americans oppose it.
Disaster personnel and volunteers have to rely critical federal funding that's been slashed.
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