The study found that, even with the same college degree, students from low-income families earn less than those from middle ...

Laws are on the books in Illinois designed to help close the damaging gender wage gap, but many women are unaware of them. To change that, a $350,000 grant has been awarded to the Illinois Departme… ...

Across all states, the average man’s wage as a full-time worker was $61,661.60, compared to the average yearly wage for a full-time working woman of $50,314.66. How does Illinois rank?

And Illinois ranks number 28 on a state wage gap breakdown, according to the National Women’s Law Center. Overall, women in Illinois earn 79.3 cents for every dollar a man makes, which is on par ...

Sponsors of the bill say in Illinois, closing the gender wage gap would translate into a 16% increase in women’s earnings, totaling $20.5 billion, a huge boost for the state’s economy.