June Carbone and Nancy Levit Helping Women Win in the Workplace

How can we foster more equity in the economy, where gender parity is not merely a talking point, but a reality? Despite there being more women in the workforce than in decades past, the wage gap has not closed. In fact, gaps have widened, with the most educated women falling the furthest behind. Even with a collective celebration of high-profile representation — women on the board of Fortune 500 companies and our first female Vice President of the United States — women have limited recourse when they experience harassment and discrimination, and blue-collar women hold the most insecure and badly paid jobs in our economy.

In the new co-authored book Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy, three legal scholars take a look at the state of women’s progress — and the lack thereof.