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Women Earn Less than Men Whether They Work in the Same or Different Occupations
Whether women work full-time year-round, full-time per week, or whether all women with earnings are included, they face a substantial wage gap. Women who worked full-time year- round in 2022 made just 84.0 cents on the dollar paid to men. In 2023, the weekly earnings...
Gender Equality: The EU is breaking the glass ceiling thanks to new gender balance targets on company boards
Today, the European Parliament has formally adopted the new EU law on gender balance on corporate boards. By 2026, companies will need to have 40% of the underrepresented sex among non-executive directors or 33% among all directors....
How 17 Equals 49.6: The Amazing Multiplying Women
When a group of society has long been underrepresented, an increase in representation, no matter how small, can be perceived inaccurately as an onslaught....
A Startling Statistic at UCLA
This fall 4,852 freshmen are expected to enroll at UCLA, but only 96, or 2%, are African American -- the lowest figure in decades and a growing concern at the Westwood campus. For several years, students, professors and administrators at UCLA have watched with...
Fortune 500 Board Seats For Women And People Of Color Surge—But There’s Still Progress Needed, Report Says
The amount of women and underrepresented racial and ethnic groups sitting on the boards of Fortune 500 companies increased to its highest ever percentage, 44.7%—up from 38% in 2020—but minority women still only hold 7.8% of seats and progress has slowed for Latinos...
Women in Leadership Face Ageism at Every Age
Originally, ageism was understood to be prejudice, stereotypes, and discriminatory behavior targeted at older employees. But with an increasingly diverse and multigenerational workforce, age bias now occurs across the career life cycle — especially for women....
America’s classrooms are finally embracing financial literacy
Stuyvesant High School in New York has become one of the first of its kind in the entire nation to provide comprehensive financial literacy classes for its students. The move could not come soon enough for America's money-challenged young people....
Women in Finance Criticize City of London’s ‘Tokenistic’ Diversity Efforts
Testimonies from 40 women across banking, insurance and asset management in Britain describe diversity and inclusion initiatives as often “tokenistic,” and lacking the “teeth” to make a change in an industry where misogynistic attitudes linger. The summary of a...
Education doesn’t solve the pay gap. Experts say they’re not surprised.
The gap exists across industries but is bigger in higher-paying fields, leading to more calls for policies that aid women in the workforce. https://19thnews.org/2023/12/education-doesnt-solve-gender-pay-gap/
Black Scientists With STEM Ph.D.s Face Deep Disparities
A new report finds they disproportionately carry large amounts of student loan debt, among other disparities faced by STEM doctoral grads of color....
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