Danielle Paquette

Kim Turner holds her daughter Adelaide Turner Winn before a rally supporting paid family leave at City Hall in San Francisco, Tuesday, April 5, 2016.

Trump’s budget proposal to include paid family leave

June 5, 2018 at 12:27 a.m.

President Donald Trump's budget proposal next week will include a new benefit for America's working parents, one Democrats have long championed and Republicans have long opposed: paid family leave. The...

The worst-paying jobs for college grads boast this sneaky advantage

June 5, 2018 at 1:51 a.m.

The job title "Wall Street trader" once evoked sleek suits, martini-soaked lunches and chaotic offices - a gateway to prosperity at a relatively young age. But earlier this year, Marty...

Trump slammed this Indiana factory on Twitter. Union leaders say he’s all talk.

June 5, 2018 at 3:54 a.m.

The president was tweeting about his factory again, and Don Zering was tired of it. "Rexnord of Indiana made a deal during the Obama Administration to move to Mexico," President...

Journeywoman ironworker Bridget Booker dons her hard hat on a job site in East Peoria, Illinois, on April 19.

America’s manliest industries are all competing for women

June 5, 2018 at 7:51 a.m.

Baby boomers are retiring in droves, vacating construction sites and body shops and 18-wheelers. Now America's male-dominated industries, faced with a looming worker shortage, are trying to tap talent that...

She was pregnant and broke. Signing up for Uber drove her into debt.

June 5, 2018 at 11:23 a.m.

Maya Warren sat in a hospital bed, clutching her stomach. Through the contractions, she tried to focus on the baby. But she thought instead of her bank account. "Hand me...

The share of moms who financially support their families continues to grow, according to a new study from the Center for American Progress.

The days of stay-at-home moms are ‘long gone,’ report says

June 8, 2018 at 6:40 p.m.

The days of stay-at-home mothers are behind us, asserts a new report from the Center for American Progress, which analyzed national labor data and found that, across the country, the...

New products transforming the way women think about their periods

June 9, 2018 at 1:20 p.m.

Miki Agrawal lifts her gauzy white dress and points to her underwear. "I'm wearing our prototypes," she says. They're sleek, black — the kind you save for special occasions. They...

A new study finds slight weight gain can hurt your job prospects.

Even an extra 5 pounds can hurt your job chances

June 13, 2018 at 4:05 a.m.

The suddenly reluctant zipper can bring more than a sting of self-consciousness. A new study from the journal Plos One out this month found slight weight gain can hurt a...

A new study finds that workers who don't get paid sick days are more likely to go to work when they are feeling down, and their co-workers are more likely to get sick.

When workers don’t get paid sick days, everyone else is more likely to get sick

June 9, 2018 at 4:34 p.m.

Maybe you prepare food for a living. Maybe you feel awfully nauseated. Maybe you clock in, anyway — rent is due in two weeks. Working Americans often power through illness,...

Since 2003, when government researchers started collecting the data, men have reported devoting more life to paid labor than their female counterparts. In 2015, employed men recorded working an average 42 minutes per day longer than employed women. Women, meanwhile, said they spent more time on housework: 2.6 hours, compared to the men's 2.1 hours.

Men say they work more than women. Here’s the truth.

June 10, 2018 at 4:47 p.m.

Another year, another Time Use survey from the Department of Labor - and another eyebrow-raising revelation that men log more hours at work than women. Those who argue both genders...

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