Then we did a reality check: We reviewed our payroll and realized that while we didn’t see outliers based on race or gender, we did see some anomalies based on employees who were better at negotiating — and some hiring managers who were worse at it. After that, when we made a can...
After 13 years, Canada’s version of Harvard is finally reporting that it successfully closed its gender pay gap. Personally, I think they screwed up. Not because women should be paid less than men, but because they fell into the old trap of trying to equate jobs that are completely and ...
The gender pay gap is only one of the many symptoms of the many real-life disparities that women face at the hands of the patriarchy. While it can be fixed if employers only moved to do so, it takes a grassroots approach to actually fix and eradicate the problem forever. The ...
Populations can be divided up in different ways to show different levels and forms of income inequality, such as income inequality by gender or race. Different measures, such as theGini Index, can be used to analyze the level of income inequality in a population. Key Takeaways Income inequalit...
Because of the gender pay gap, over the course of a 40-year career, the average womanwill lose $407,760according to the National Women's Law Center, and that doesn’t include interest or investments that could make that gap even larger. And while we have seen positive changes in the w...
Layer on the pink tax women pay for many products, and their pocketbooks get hit particularly hard. As we reflect on the unjustness of the gender wage gap, it is important to note that this is the average of all women’s salaries across the board. Break out the...
Still, it’s estimated that it will take nearly a century to close the global gender gap. A culture and community of women supporting women is a start, Gail says. “You, as one individual woman, are not trying to change the world for all women,” she says. “You can’t take that ...
Closing the gender pay gap requires all hands on deck.Credit: vicky leta It's 2020. 3D printers can makeprosthetic limbs. Our computers canpredictwhat we're going to type before we do it. And women across the countrystilldon't receive equal pay for equal work. ...
AI's gender bias is even worse than reality "Secondly, many of the fake news sites were set up by people making money through advertising on them. Ads were meant to help site owners pay for content production; now they’re a web parasite that is in danger of killing the hosts. We ...
Returning to our earlier case at Gravity Payments, we can see how some long-term employees who had worked their way up to higher wages experienced significant dissatisfaction when the company raised its minimum wage significantly, as it narrowed the wage gap between new and veteran employees. ...