For just the second time, women outnumbered men in the U.S. paid workforce, with their new majority buoyed by fast job growth in health care and education over the past year, as well as the tight labor market.

For the past 25 years, market returns have rapidly outpaced wage growth. But it wasn’t always this way.

A small research institute tried a ‘Hunger Games’ process for job applicants, who had to self-assemble into groups and apply together.