Women CEOs face a much tougher road than their male counterparts. They’re more harshly judged and more likely to get fired.
(Shutterstock)
As CEOs, women have it tougher than men. Their severance deals prove it.
Scenes from the morning commute in Jakarta, Indonesia.
unwomen/flickr
Women are earning less in average than men, however there is a staggering 27.60% difference in salary for women who are under 30 years old.
Michelle Williams arrives at the world premiere of ‘All the Money in the World.’
Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
A new analysis of over 400 actors shows that gender discrimination plays a major role in Hollywood salaries.
Pexels
What about the dads?
In Canada, female doctors have 31 per cent higher odds of suicidal ideation than their male colleagues, according to a 2018 Canadian Medical Association survey.
(Shtterstock)
Lack of systemic support for women physicians may help explain why it is hard to find a family doctor in Canada.
Women will keep fighting for true pensions equality.
Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire/PA Images
The ruling suggests there is an enduring disregard for one of the most vulnerable groups in today’s society: older women.
Nathan DeFiesta via Unsplash
Detailed analysis of 1,300 movies finds that women actors earn an average of US$1.1m or 25% less than their male colleagues.
KPMG says Australia’s gender pay gap declined from $3.05 an hour in 2014 to $2.43 in 2017.
www.shutterstock.com
If we really want to close the gender pay gap, we need to talk about traps we fall into at home.
Demand for midwifery services across Canada is now much greater than midwives can currently provide.
(Shutterstock)
The benefits of midwifery for women and babies globally are clear. In Canada, innovations in midwifery centres and services are tempered by low pay and high rates of burnout.
The U.S. women’s soccer team celebrates with the trophy after winning the World Cup final.
(AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Women’s sports have been stuck in a boom-and-bust cycle for the past 20 years. It’s time to start a new narrative.
Violence against women is often represented as a timeless and universal phenomenon, creating the view the problem is too large to fix, or that only the worst abuses are worthy of attention.
James Ross/AAP Image
History shows that domestic violence has been deeply entrenched in the culture of Australia from its early days. Progress is only made by understanding this history – and talking about it.
This is not what board meetings at the biggest nonprofits usually look like.
Monkey Business Images/Shuttertock.com
Approaching gender parity on the boards of big nonprofits might help narrow the pay gap among the sector’s highest-paid leaders.
In the 1950s and 1960s, as more women joined the paid workforce, trade unions took up the case for equal pay.
Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University
Five decades ago Australia’s industrial relations system endorsed the concept of ‘equal pay for equal work’. So why does the gender pay gap endure?
The Morrison government has trumpeted its record number of female ministers, but it will need a new approach to policy-making to truly improve women’s lives.
Lukas Coch/AAP
When it comes to gender equality, it’s not just the number of women in parliament that matters – it’s how they go about legislating for change.
FIFA defends the pay imbalance with the usual claim that it reflects the difference in revenue produced by the men’s and women’s tournaments.
Guillaume Horcajuelo/EPA
For years, women footballers have resorted to everything from strikes to lawsuits to fight for gender equity. Why is it taking so long to close the pay gap?
Shutterstock
Tackling the gender pay gap must take into account the way that part-time workers are treated.
‘Ha. But how much do you get paid?’
Shutterstock
Mandatory reporting could help highlight the ethnicity pay gap in much the same way that gender pay gap reporting does.
The gender pay gap has proved difficult to close.
Ian johnston/shutterstock.com
Women make about 81 cents for every dollar a man earns, little changed in recent years. Could more pay transparency change that?
Shutterstock
The job of looking after safety in the skies remains a highly sexualised occupation.
Ink Drop / Shutterstock
Progress on gender pay issues in finance especially has been too slow, fragmented and uneven.