When the first commercial typewriters were introduced in 1874, offices were men’s domain. But soon the majority of clerical workers were women, and that remains true today. In 1870, pre-typewriter, just 2.5% of clerical workers in the U.S. were women. But by 1930, that number had risen to 52.5% — and the clerical workforce had ballooned in size.

For the first time in decades, progress on gender equality has taken a step backwards—largely because of disruptions stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. Women continue to face unique pressures, but pursuing financial wellness doesn’t have to be one of them.

Currently, under 2% of auto mechanics are women. This is out of the nearly 750,000 automotive service technicians and mechanics employed in the occupation. But with retirements and growth within the sector, the National Automobile Dealers Association estimates 76,000 technicians need to be replaced each year.

When then-President-elect Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Janet Yellen for secretary of the treasury, he joked that “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda should write a musical about her. So “Marketplace” asked Dessa, a member of the hip-hop collective Doomtree and one of the artists who contributed to “The Hamilton Mixtape,” to think about what that might sound like.

In 2020, women were disproportionately affected by job loss and left the workforce in record numbers, prompting some to label COVID-19 a “disaster for feminism.” But what is “feminism,” and who gets to decide what it looks like?

Just how bad is the discrepancy between what men and women collect in Social Security? In 2015, the average yearly retirement benefit for women was $14,184, but for men, it was $18,000. That's a pretty sizable gap when we consider that male and female retirees are apt to face similar expenses.

omen’s suffrage took more than seven decades of political struggle, and included marches, hunger strikes, and arrests. And, like political campaigns of today, it required a lot of money. While women like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were on the front lines of the movement, there were other women working behind the scenes to fund it.

The issue of gender diversity in the workplace is just not limited to the CEO's office or to upper management. Boardrooms are experiencing the same problem. Despite attempts to increase the number of women board directors in recent years, the overall makeup of boardrooms is still mostly male. Why?

One growing trend in toy-buying is so-called gender-neutral playthings – toys that don’t reinforce gender stereotypes like trucks for boys or dolls for girls. But those stereotypes appear hard to shake for both toy makers and consumers.

Nevada is currently one of 36 states that do not exempt feminine products from sales tax. There are approximately 867,000 women between the ages of 12 and 55 who live in Nevada and might be affected by this tax.

In 2017, 17 percent — nearly one in five — of all sexual harassment allegations filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission came from men. While the vast majority of workplace sexual harassment cases are brought by women, men too experience sexual harassment and abuse in the workplace. It's an issue, surrounded by a culture of stigma and silence, that lawyers and advocates say often goes unnoticed and under-reported.

Dana Kanze, the Harvard Business Review study’s author, led a team of Columbia University researchers to comb through almost 200 videos of entrepreneurs pitching at a TechCrunch funding competition in New York. She tracked the words investors used when asking questions and found they use different words depending on the gender of the entrepreneur. When speaking to men, investors used words like "gain," "hope," "ideal," "accomplish," "achieve," "aspire," "obtain," "earn," "expand" and "grow." But female entrepreneurs, said Kanze, hear a different kind of language. The questions investors ask them include words like "accuracy," "afraid," "anxious," "avoid," "careful," "conservative," "defend," "fear," "loss," "obligation" and "pain."