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Gender Pay Gap – Girls born in 2000 are aspiring to do jobs that are paid 31 percent lower than males research in UK finds
Girls born in 2000 are aspiring to do jobs that are paid 31 percent lower than males, according to a new IZA discussion paper by LSE researchers Warn N. Lekfuangfu and Grace Lordan. Boys born in 2000, on the other hand, have higher aspirations than previous male generations in terms of income, to the point … Continue reading
Gender Pay Gap at Tech Companies
By Heidi Weston It may be the year of the woman this 2018, but there is still a long way to go in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics industries, also known as STEM. The shortage of women in these jobs means that the gender pay gap will not be bridged until 2069, another long … Continue reading
Gender Pay Gap in US – On average in 2013, women made 82 percent of the median weekly earnings of male full-time wage and salary workers BLS finds
In 2013, women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median usual weekly earnings of $706. On average in 2013, women made 82 percent of the median weekly earnings of male full-time wage and salary workers ($860). In 1979, the first year for which comparable earnings data are available, women earned 62 percent of … Continue reading
Gender Pay gap in UK / Increased to 10.0% from 9.5% in 2012 finds ONS
The gender pay gap (i.e. the difference between men’s and women’s earnings as a percentage of men’s earnings) based on median gross hourly earnings (excluding overtime) for full-time employees increased to 10.0% from 9.5% in 2012 Continue reading
UK / The Gender pay gap still at 15%
Official figures analysed by the TUC show the hourly rate of pay for men is £26.54 and for women £18.32, with the disparity even wider in part-time jobs Continue reading
The Gender Wage Gap / Be or not to be ?
“Unequal pay for equal work? Not really” writes Katie Bardaro, Lead Economist, PayScale. “Women earn less than men on average because they often fill jobs with a large societal benefit, but small monetary benefit. Instead of focusing the debate on the misbegotten gender wage gap, we should instead examine why women are absent from high-paying … Continue reading
US Gender Gap / 11 of 15 top-paying jobs dominated by men
The balance of genders among top professions leans heavily toward men but women are making strides forward, U.S. employment firm CareerBuilder said. “While employers have made strides in equalizing compensation for both genders, historical gaps are still present in some organizations today,” Rosemary Haefner, vice president of Human Resources at CareerBuilder said in a statement. … Continue reading
Wage gaps / Destroy employee morale and productivity
Research has long cited the ongoing gap that exists between the wages of men and women, and those of immigrants and native Canadians. The context for the debate tends to revolve around the valid and omnipresent issue of discrimination, but rarely is the economic impact of the wage gap emphasized — a significant oversight given … Continue reading
Gender Wage Gap Grows At Elite B-Schools finds Bloomberg
Exclusive new research from Bloomberg Businessweek has found that the pay gap among graduates of elite business schools, virtually non-existent a decade ago, is widening. Women now earn a nickel less than they used to in their first post-MBA jobs for every dollar earned by men. And those are the lucky ones. At about a … Continue reading
Gender Gap / Equal Education but Unequal Pay / Infographics from LearnStuff
Check out the infographic below to see the gender wage gap affects. via Equal Education Unequal Pay | LearnStuff.
New Zealand | Gender pay gap widens
The gender pay gap is the biggest it has been in 10 years, according to new data from Statistic New Zealand. The quarterly employment survey shows the gender gap has increased in the year to September by 1.3 per cent, from 12.85 per cent to 14.18 per cent. Pay Equity Challenge Coalition said it was … Continue reading
US – Latin American and Caribbean Women are Better Educated but get Lower Paid
Despite recent gains, the wage gap between men and women in Latin America still prevails, according to a new Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) study entitled “New Century, Old Disparities,” which compares surveys of representative households in 18 Latin American and Caribbean countries. The study was released at the POWER Conference, a high-level meeting of experts … Continue reading
Discrimination and Gender Wage Gap
“We’d all like to think, in 2012, that pay discrimination is a thing of the past,” the progressive activist Joy Lawson wrote in the Huffington Post recently. “But the pay gap still exists, and it’s big: women earn an average of 77 cents on a man’s dollar.” The pay gap is exaggerated, discrimination doesn’t drive it and it’s not … Continue reading
April 17 – Equal Pay Day | Top 10 Facts
While the wage gap has certainly narrowed with the past generation of working women—in 1967 women only earned about 58 cents to a man’s dollar—progress has stalled in recent years. If progress continues at its current rate, it will take 45 years to eradicate the wage gap. Given the unfortunate fact that the gender wage … Continue reading
Indiana | Wage gap | One of the largest
April 17 is national Equal Pay Day, when women and men around the country recognize the wage gap between working women and men and offer remedies to address pay inequity. According to the 2010 Census, women are paid on average 77 cents for every dollar their male counterparts are paid for the same work. But … Continue reading
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