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
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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
November 25, 2019 | Forbes We are more than 200 years away from true gender parity at work. And looking past the moral issues that this point raises, it’s shocking that so many companies fail to recognize the clear and measurable business results that gender diversity contributes to a company’s bottom line. Companies that are … Continue reading 3 Steps to Advance Gender Equality in 2020
January 28, 2020 | Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books released the first Diversity Baseline Survey (DBS 1.0) in 2015. Before the DBS, people suspected publishing had a diversity problem, but without hard numbers, the extent of that problem was anyone’s guess. Our goal was to survey publishing houses and review journals regarding … Continue reading Where is the Diversity in Publishing? The 2019 Diversity Baseline Survey Results
March 23, 2018 | The Guardian The UK’s biggest publishers release figures showing average differences in pay between men and women ranging from 11.3% to 29.69%. The books industry may be dominated by women, but men are reaping the rewards, as the UK’s largest publishers reveal a “stark” divide in pay. Figures reported to the government equalities office … Continue reading Gender pay gap figures reveal big publishing’s great divide
Dr. Ben Waber tracked interactions between employees in 2016 and found there was no difference in performance in men and women. In a new study published in the Harvard Business Review by a team led by Waber, women only consist of 4% of Fortune 500 CEO’s, make about 80 cents on the dollar compared to … Continue reading Women Aren’t Advancing Because of Inherent Workplace Bias According to Study
"Data speaks volumes. Outsell discovered that just 6% of the top 350 companies in our industry are run by women, and only 22% of their C-suites are composed of women, and many of these positions are in marketing or HR. In this week's special edition interview, I asked Anthea Stratigos to sit down with me … Continue reading An interview by Outsell For Startups with WE advisor Anthea Stratigos
Publishing in the last few years has acquired a healthy appetite for collecting data that reveal the buying and reading habits of us, its customers. Yet publishers rarely collect data on themselves – and even more sparingly do they ever share it. The independent, non-profit Workplace Equity Project (WE) explores workplace experiences, practices, and opportunities in scholarly … Continue reading Workplace Equity Project Surveying Scholarly Publishing
