Closing Wiki’s Gender Gap With Art+Feminism

 Art+Feminism's Edit-a-thons are bringing some changes to Wikipedia in a big way. In 2011, a study found that only a small fraction of Wikipedia’s volunteer editors are female. The same study found that there are a lack of Wiki entries about women or topics relating to women. The study concluded

Wage Equality: Lessons from the public sector

 By Warren (Smokey) Thomas, President of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union As a general rule, women get paid less than men do. It doesn’t matter how you measure it. If you go by the average annual pay of all women in Ontario, women make 69 cents for every dollar

Women, Wages & The Workplace

 The year is 2015. Do women still make less money than men? Generally, yes, although the discrepancies are no longer the huge yawning gaps of the 1960s. A recent paper by Richard Shillington of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has analyzed public sector v. private sector wages. Shillington found