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    Emily Peck

    Emily Peck

    Senior Reporter, HuffPost

  • Trump Appointee Plans To Nix Obama-Era Rules on Equal Pay Information

    The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission doesn't want to require large employers to provide data on pay detailed by race, gender.

  • The Secret Courts Companies Use To Evade Justice

    A new study shines a light on the murky world of forced arbitration

  • Another Reason To Hate On Wire Hangers

    Here's another reason to hate on wire hangers: These annoying objects are driving up dry cleaning prices, CNN Money reports. Wire hangers earned infamy in "Mommie Dearest," the 1981 biopic of film legend Joan Crawford in which the actress, played by Faye Dunaway, is shown beating her daughter with a hanger, exhorting: "No Wire Hangers Ever!" While we, of course, abhor child abuse (though love campy '80s films), HuffPost Money agrees with Dunaway/Crawford. No wire hangers, please! We take care to recycle each and every annoying hanger that our dry cleaner provides.

  • It's A Good Time To Be A Woman

    Two stories Monday highlight women's rise in the workplace. CNNMoney is the latest news outlet to discover that more men are staying home to take care of their children. In the CNN story, reporter Jessica Dickler writes that "a growing number of dads... are staying home with the kids." The story cites statistics from the Census showing that 32 percent of fathers with a wife in the workforce took care of their children at least one day a week in 2010, an increase from 26 percent in 2002. CNN's hardly the first to discover that more fathers are staying home. Time's March cover story "The Richer Sex," claimed that "women are overtaking men as America's breadwinners." In January BusinessWeek ran a cover story entitled "Behind Every Great Woman," which took a deep dive into female corporate executives married lives.

  • Overpaid By Today's Standards

    Looking at the costs of Don Draper's lush life, what strikes us most is just how impossibly good the dashing, inscrutable star of TVs "Mad Men" had it--at least in terms of his personal finances. In 2012 dollars, that translates into an annual salary of $356,510, as our friends at Credit Sesame point out. Today, someone with Draper's equivalent job as a creative director at an advertising firm makes an average annual salary of $133,641, according to Credit Sesame's analysis.