"We can't know what we don't know. We can't deliver on the promise of equal pay unless we have the best, most comprehensive information about what people earn," Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez said Friday.

As Congress enters recess, House members are reminding their Senate colleagues to get serious about pay equity, in the wake of last year’s disastrous Ledbetter v. Goodyear decision by the Supreme Court. One is 15-year House veteran Lucille Roybal-Allard, who as the first Mexican-American woman to serve in Congress knows a thing or two about societal barriers: The Paycheck Fairness…

Dreams can make money, too: Forbes magazine loves to release lists of people who make ton more money than you. In the new "Celebrity 100" list of the world’s most powerful celebrities,  a goodly number of midlife women make the cut – topped, of course, by Oprah: Ratings for the self-made billionaire’s flagship production, The Oprah Winfrey Show, may have…

New research by the American Association of University Women reveals that the pay gap between women and men begins at the beginning. Women are already earning 20 percent less than men in the same field and at the same level just one year after college graduation. And the percentages only get worse as the years go by. Amy Joyce at…