| When the dude in the cubicle next to you gets a fatter check for doing the exact same job | | If you're a working woman today, we feel you. You hustle hard. A lot of you are minimum-wage workers. Nearly 40% of you are your family's breadwinners. Many of you are juggling the demands of a career with the demands of a family. And while we hope most of our workplaces are not as horrifically sexist as they were when Tess McGill was a Working Girl, the reality is that in 2017 women still earn 80 cents for every dollar men make. And that's just white women. Black women earn 63 cents and Latinas 54 cents. Equal Pay Day aims to raise awareness of the wage gap — which has barely budged in the last decade — and push for legislation to better protect the women who are suffering because of it (Sheryl Sandberg has some words on that). A lot of people, though, believe the wage gap is a myth. Women make less, the say, because they make choices to have kids or lean toward lower-paying careers. But labor economists say even when factors like these are adjusted for, women still earn less then men. And that, they say, is discrimination. So what does the future look like? The pay gap could eventually vanish for all women — sometime in the 23rd century. | | 'Reprehensible' chemical attack kills scores of civilians in Syria | | The six-year Syrian civil war suffered another horrific day Tuesday after a suspected chemical weapons attack killed 58 people, 11 of them children, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based monitoring group. Casualties from the attack, which took place in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in the northern Idlib province, are expected to rise. The Syrian government of President Bashar Assad denied using chemical weapons, but the U.S. and international communities were unconvinced. White House spokesman Sean Spicer calling the attack "reprehensible" and that it "cannot be ignored by the civilized world." The news comes ahead of a meeting of representatives from 50 nations in Brussels on Wednesday to try and figure out ways to provide financial and humanitarian aid to the 13.5 million people affected by the crisis. | | Get in while you can? | | A shakeup of the popular H-1B visa program is leaving companies and those who have come to the U.S. for technical work in a state of panic and confusion. The issues arise from a Department of Homeland Security measure designed to "deter and detect" fraud and abuse in the program. While that sounds good on paper, its timing couldn't be worse, arriving the same week that applications started flooding into U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, leaving those who applied in a bind. "Even if you wanted to redo anything because of this memo, you don't have time to because the Department of Labor piece of the application, which has to be done prior to submission, takes seven days," said Mark Koestler, a partner at the law firm Kramer Levin. H-1B visas are commonly used by tech companies looking for computer specialists, though they are limited to only 85,000 per year and need to be filed on paper and sent through traditional "snail mail." | | Goodbye football field, hello broadcast booth | | It looks like Tony Romo's trading in the helmet and pads for a suit, tie and mic. Don't worry Cowboys fans, you'll still be seeing plenty of Romo on Sundays. While the Cowboys quarterback is getting set to call it a career , he'll be making the jump from the gridiron to the broadcast booth as a color commentator. CBS is the lucky network scoring Romo's services, with the 14-year quarterback set to replace fellow former quarterback Phil Simms as Jim Nantz's broadcasting partner. The decision caps a rough few years for Romo, who has been battling a variety of back and shoulder injuries. Rookie Dak Prescott took over Romo's role as the Cowboys starting quarterback this past season, leading the Cowboys to the NFC East title before falling to the Packers in the playoffs. |  | | #mustread: The Lillelid murders still haunt East Tennessee | | On April 6, 1997, a family from Powell, Tenn., stopped at a rest stop off I-81 on their way home from a church conference. A group of six young people at the rest stop kidnapped the family and drove them to a nearby dirt road where all four were shot. The parents, Vidar and Delfina Lillelid, were killed. Tabitha, 6, died later at the hospital. Peter, 2, was the only survivor. The six gunmen, all serving life sentences with no chance of parole, know what happened that Sunday evening 20 years ago. Each tells a slightly different story. | | This is a compilation of stories from across USA TODAY | |
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