The New York Times July 21, 2017 Susan Chira It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers. The impact of gender is hard to pin down decisively. But after years of biting their tongues, believing their ranks would swell if they simply worked hard, many senior women in business are concluding that the barriers are …
California bosses can no longer ask you about your previous salary
The Orange County Register PUBLISHED: October 12, 2017 at 6:15 pm | UPDATED: October 13, 2017 at 8:49 am By Margot Roosevelt | mroosevelt@scng.com A landmark new law designed to narrow the gender pay gap in the nation’s most populous state bars California employers from inquiring about applicants’ previous salaries and benefits. The salary privacy bill, was enacted by Gov. …
From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories
Multiple women share harrowing accounts of sexual assault and harassment by the film executive. The New Yorker October 23, 2017 By Ronan Farrow This story was first published on newyorker.com on October 10, 2017, at 10:47 A.M. The version below appears in the October 23, 2017, issue. 1. Since the establishment of the first studios, a century ago, there have …
Hot Flash Holiness
HUFFPOST August 1, 2008 By Dr. Susan Corso No one would wish hot flashes on anyone during the summer. Being a fair-skinned person, I don’t do summer particularly comfortably anyway, and hot flashes really add insult to injury. Especially after a long winter of cold flashes! Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary is less informative than Wikipedia. First, hot flashes or hot …
Closing gender gap could boost economy
The San Diego Union-Tribune May 21, 2016 By Kate Morrissey If San Diego were to shrink the gender gap in its workforce even moderately, the metro area could increase its gross domestic product by about $23 billion by 2025, according to a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute. That’s about a 9 percent boost to the current estimated growth, …
Flexible men and successful women: the effects of flexible working hours on German couples’ wages
SAGE Journals First Published July 12, 2017 By Laura Antonia Langner Abstract Work hour flexibility is believed to help couples manage career and family demands. The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is unique in following both the flexible employee and their partner over time. The study utilizes this feature to investigate whether the take-up of work hour flexibility is detrimental …
The Start-up Chronicles – Playing by the Rules (Part 1)
Built By She Journal September 27, 2017 By Jenifer Maxwel Keeping it all Together When it comes to the rules, there are too many, amirite? I mean who can keep up? You got your best business practices and your social media. There’s the general rules of social etiquette (or as I like to practice it, social awkwardness). You got your …
Is Gender Diversity Profitable Evidence from a Global Survey
Peterson Institute of Economics
Marcus Noland, Tyler Moran, and Barbara Kotschwar
Analysis of a global survey of 21,980 firms from 91 countries suggests that the presence of women in corporate leadership
positions may improve firm performance. This correlation could reflect either the payoff to nondiscrimination or the
fact that women increase a firm’s skill diversity. Women’s presence in corporate leadership is positively correlated with
firm characteristics such as size as well as national characteristics such as girls’ math scores, the absence of discriminatory
attitudes toward female executives, and the availability of paternal leave. The results find no impact of board
gender quotas on firm performance, but they suggest that the payoffs of policies that facilitate women rising through the
corporate ranks more broadly could be significant.
3 Female Former Employees Sue Google Over Alleged Gender Pay Discrimination
NPR September 15, 2017 By Merrit Kennedy Systematically paying women less than men. Promoting them more slowly. And denying them opportunities. These are the allegations in a lawsuit against Google filed Thursday in San Francisco on behalf of three female former employees. They’re seeking class-action status to sue on behalf of all women employed by Google in California over the …
Flexible men result in successful women
Women whose male partners take advantage of flexible working hours see a significant increase in their own earnings. University of Oxford July 26, 2017 Research conducted by Dr Laura Langner at the University of Oxford’s Department of Sociology investigated changes in heterosexual couples’ hourly wages once one partner enters work-hour flexibility. The study found that once men started working flexible …