When you win your fourth Women’s World Cup, let everybody know it’s also about equal pay. Following the 2-0 win for the U.S. women’s national soccer team in France against the Netherlands, representation for the players who are suing the U.S. Soccer Federation for pa
Read MoreIt’s both good and bad news. Women still have a ways to go before they reach equal pay for equal work, but this year shows a small improvement of 1 percent over last year. Equal Pay Day on April 2 marks
Read MoreEvery player on the winningest United States women’s soccer team in history was a part of a gender discrimination lawsuitagainst the U.S. Soccer Federation recently, with the explicit goal to close the gender pay gap that unfairly compensates women in the sport.
Read MoreHow many Mega Millions winning lottery tickets would it take to close the gender pay gap? 313. That’s because $500 billion is the total gender pay gap each year in the United States
Read More“This is so no 12- year-old girl is sorry she’s a girl.” Heather Hardy, the World Boxing Champion International Female Super Bantamweight with a 21-0 undefeated record, and an MMA fighter, wants you to know that the lessons she shares on pay equity, persistence, winning, passion and defeat all women can use.
Read MoreWhen is 20 percent off not a good thing? When it is applied to every working woman in America who makes on average 20 percent less than a man in the same position. Click here for Take The Lead’s Equal Pay Day Infographic
Read MoreIt’s not better working on your own if you are a woman in the creative fields of blogging, writing, photography, design, event planning and more.
It’s way worse.
Read MoreWe already know that companies with more women executives are more profitable. But these companies are also paying their female employees more fairly, according to a new analysis by Redfin and PayScale. The gender pay gap is half the size at tech companies with more women executives.
Read MoreThis powerful infographic, created by Take The Lead’s Nailah Blades, visually expresses tips for negotiations underlining the necessity for the power to ask as now is the time to close the gap.
Read More“Be like Iceland.”
That could be the motto for the United State to achieve gender pay equity. And yes, we could be like Iceland, but perhaps without all the ice.
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