Read more: New harrassment guidance protect workers The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has introduced updated workplace harassment guidance aimed at preventing and addressing harassment, offering recommendations for employers to create inclusive and harassment-free workplaces.
Read more: Women in the workplace The Women in the Workplace 2023 report, a collaboration between McKinsey and LeanIn.Org, reveals that while women have made significant gains in reaching leadership positions, particularly in the C-suite, gender equality remains elusive, especially for women of color. The report debunks common myths about women in the workplace, highlighting… Read more »
Claudia Goldin won the Nobel Prize in economics this week. Here are a few links to her work: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/goldin/files/dynamics_of_the_gender_gap_for_young_professionals_in_the_financial_and_corporate_sectors.pdf https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/goldin/files/the_quiet_revolution_that_transformed_womens_employment_education_and_family.pdf https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31762/w31762.pdf
The different pay for men and women in tennis tournaments is in the news this summer; see https://go.iu.edu/4PUG
Here’s a new case from the Ninth Circuit federal Court of Appeals, https://go.iu.edu/4O8G, in which former employees claimed that their employer “permitted its managers and employees to routinely play ‘sexually graphic, violently misogynistic’ music throughout its 700,000-square-foot warehouse in Reno, Nevada.” The Court ruled the plaintiffs’ claims can proceed, finding that the environment could constitute… Read more »
Some ideas for summer reading (with links to purchase — these are available for IU faculty through the IU library): https://go.iu.edu/4O33 https://go.iu.edu/4O34 https://go.iu.edu/4O35
Here’s an intriguing article (unfortunately, it requires a subscription) promoting the ‘GPP’ – gender proportionality principle – that any given level in an organization should shoot for a gender balance that mirrors that of the level right below it. It also reports that gender disparities are most pronounced in levels of promotion, not in hiring:… Read more »
What a great story on the history made 35 years ago:
Here’s a new report from Pew Research Center about starting salaries, including some gender differences: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023/04/05/when-negotiating-starting-salaries-most-us-women-and-men-dont-ask-for-higher-pay/
In honor of Equal Pay Day, here’s a report on the pay gap: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/14/1162776985/equal-pay-day-gender-pay-gap-discrimination (noting