When my sons were toddlers and I went back to work, my father warned: “You’ll regret this decision when your children are teens and exhibit all sorts of problems.”
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To say Tim Hunt put his foot in his mouth last week is an understatement; it’s more like he tried to eat his foot for lunch. At a conference in South Korea on Tuesday, the Nobel Prize-winning British scientist described himself as a “chauvinist” and commented that having women in labs is a pain.
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Marc Benioff, you get all the points. The CEO of the cloud computing company is personally examining the salaries of his 16,000 employees to eliminate the pay gap between men and women. When he finds evidence of a gap—get this!—he raises the woman’s salary. He’s already given out a few raises, and told The Huffington Post, “When I’m done there will be no gap.” He then tore open his shirt to reveal a superhero suit underneath. (Kidding, but he totally could have, and no one would’ve blinked.)
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Last week the equal-pay movement gained an unlikely supporter in Pope Francis, who called the pay gap between men and women “a pure scandal.” The Pope used his weekly address to urge Christians to demand equal pay for equal work, saying, “Why is it expected that women must earn less than men? No! They have the same rights.”
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Remember that great Fortune column by Warren Buffett a few years ago on how women are the world’s greatest untapped resource and the key to America’s economic prosperity? We might return to it as we think about what makes startups successful.
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A big barrier to women’s leadership parity was overlooked in the recent brouhaha about Facebook and Apple covering employees’ insurance for egg freezing.
These companies are not, as headlines screamed “paying women to freeze eggs.”
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