Because we know you need some good news: the new managing director class at Goldman Sachs includes a record number of women (25 percent).
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A woman in Arizona who holds a full-time job is paid, on average, $36,916 per year while a man who holds a full-time job is paid $43,945 per year
Women in Arizona are paid 84 cents for every dollar paid to men in same jobs with comparable qualifications and tenure, amounting to a yearly wage gap of $7,029 between men and women who work full time in the state—a smaller gap than the national average or 79 cents to the dollar but still significant.
Women in Arizona who are employed full time lose a combined total of nearly six billion dollars every year due to the wage gap
Reshma Saujani founded Girls Who Code in 2012 to teach adolescent women computer science skills and inspire them to close the gender gap in tech. Three years and thousands of graduates later, the “teaching” part of that mission is humming right along. Next comes the part when these women—many of them in college now—land their first tech jobs, and they’ll have some impressive options open to them.
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Another week, another massive study on women in the workplace that will be cited for years to come (and we aren’t mad about it—please, keep them coming!). The Thomson Reuters Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation teamed up to ask 9,500 women in the G20 countries: “What are the top five challenges you face at work?”
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I recently welcomed my first grandchild to the world—a beautiful baby boy named Greg. Shortly after he was born, I was asked what I would like his world to look like 25 years from now—in terms of gender roles and relationships both at work and at home.
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If your organization has an all-male board, chances are you’re leaving a ton of money on the table. A study of publicly traded companies in the US, UK, and India found that companies with at least one woman on the board outperform companies with all-male boards in every region.
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We don’t care how long your reading list is; this study on the state of women in corporate America, published by McKinsey and Lean In last week, needs to go right to the top. It’s not long—there are only 25 or so pages of actual content—but it’s packed with important and timely information for anyone who cares about women’s leadership.
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It’s been a busy week for litigation around gender equality.
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Google’s Ad Settings software is engineered to deliver you online ads based on your interests, taking into account your prior searches, online activities, and demographic information. (It’s the reason you start to see a lot of cat food ads after watching one too many cat videos on YouTube.)
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The US Census Bureau released a new report on income last week, and there’s some good news: the gender wage gap in America is the lowest it’s ever been in history.
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Reaching full equality in the legal field is an important and ongoing struggle, but it is not a challenge to shy away from. A law firm is a living and malleable thing that is constantly changing. Recognizing the benefit of creating, fostering, and relying on diversity in your law firm is a smart way to run a business.
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Kristen Griest and Shaye Haver were hailed as trailblazers when they became the first women to graduate from the Army’s grueling Ranger School last month. They showed the Army what it was possible for women to achieve—and now we know the Army was paying attention.
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