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
See the United Nations Report here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1126171#:~:text=Without%20investment%2C%20gender%20equality%20will%20take%20nearly%20300%20years%3A%20UN%20report,-UN%20Women%2FBruno