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
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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
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