June 24, 2020 | Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry has gathered publishers of more than 4,400 scholarly journals and tens of thousands of books in a landmark commitment to reduce bias. Publishers responsible for tens of thousands of peer-reviewed journals and books have signed an agreement to take a proactive stance … Continue reading World-leading publishers join in commitment to make research publishing more inclusive and diverse
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May 7, 2020 | 500 Women Scientists The pandemic is amplifying nearly every disadvantage that women in STEM already face. But institutions and the scientific community can help. It is clear that workplace policies and culture can undermine women’s success in STEM fields. The “mom penalty,” for example, is all too familiar to many of … Continue reading Scientist Mothers Face Extra Challenges in the Face of COVID-19
May 2020 | UKSG Insights This article provides an overview of the ways in which the members of the Association of University Presses are working towards more inclusive practices in scholarly publishing. The authors consider the Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship Program (now in its fourth year), the work of the Association’s Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, the … Continue reading Towards inclusive scholarly publishing: developments in the university press community
December 19, 2017 | Standford News A new approach for reducing gender inequality in the workplace has shown promise in a pilot project at several companies. It combines existing tools and adds an evaluation of places where biases could creep in to a company’s procedures. In a recently published paper in Gender & Society, Shelley Correll, director of … Continue reading Stanford sociologist pilots new method to reduce gender inequality at work
April 6, 2018 | The Independent The benefits generated by WiP’s relentless activity are still reaped by women today – in publishing and beyond. Gregory, Mountain, Cholmeley and O’Reilly all talk of Macmillan, of Penguin, where women’s salaries are now outstripping those of men. For example, the median pay gap Macmillan reported was 34 per … Continue reading A gentleman’s profession? The women fighting for gender equality in publishing
October 2018 | McKinsey & Company Companies report that they are highly committed to gender diversity. But that commitment has not translated into meaningful progress. The proportion of women at every level in corporate America has hardly changed. Progress isn’t just slow. It’s stalled. In the fourth year of the ongoing Women in the Workplace … Continue reading Women in the Workplace 2018
Equal Pay Day was originated by the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) in 1996 as a public awareness event to illustrate the gap between men's and women's wages. (It was originally called “National Pay Inequity Awareness Day” and changed to Equal Pay Day in 1998.) Since Census statistics showing the latest wage figures will not … Continue reading National Committee on Pay Equity
July 10, 2018 | INC Is there anything more fundamental to our collective well-being than the quality of relationships between men and women? Last year, our society stumbled into unmapped territory in gender relations - as women told story after story of horrific abuse and predation at the hands of men in their lives, we … Continue reading How Women And Men Can Work Together To Create Equality
March 8, 2019 | World Economic Forum Will the workplace of the future be a model for gender parity, with women enjoying equal prospects to men in terms of seniority and salary? Or will it be or a worse proposition than the one women face today, where their levels of pay and ability to climb … Continue reading We have a chance to build the gender-equal workplaces of the future. Here’s how
December 16, 2019 | Forbes As only 29% of senior leadership roles in the workplace are held by women (and that number is the highest on record), it means that the leadership ranks are still dominated by men. While men can be a big part of the challenges that are faced in getting our workforce to … Continue reading How To Engage More Male Leaders In The Gender Equality Movement
