While the gender gap is narrowing, women still do seven hours more housework per week than men (and that doesn’t include the child-caring).
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More women are on zero hours contracts but these do not feature in gender pay gap reporting.
New research shows that parenthood penalises all women, particularly those who are on high incomes, and sets them on a trajectory of lower lifetime earnings relative to their male peers.
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Isabelle Sin, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and Gail Pacheco, Auckland University of Technology
New research shows that parenthood contributes to the gender pay gap and penalises all women, particularly those who were on high incomes before having children.
Would you share your pay information?
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Mark Smith, Grenoble École de Management (GEM) and Maria Gribling, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
A range of pressures are forcing companies to consider being more open about pay structures, levels and gaps. What are the risks and potential benefits of being more transparent?
It’s the government’s responsibility.
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The gender pay gap and CEO to worker pay ratio won’t be fixed by corporate governance initiatives alone.
Some 200,000 Argentinean women marched on March 8 for International Women’s Day. Many proclaimed their support for legalizing abortion.
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A new bill that would legalize abortion in Argentina has spurred surprise debate on the gender pay gap, parental leave and political representation. Will Argentinean women finally get their due?
This penalty can amount to more than 15 percent of a mom’s paycheck. Ramping up paid maternity leave and high-quality child care would probably help narrow the gap.
Flexible working for family reasons should be celebrated.
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The gender pay gap at Canadian universities cannot be explained away as the holdover from discrimination of long ago. It’s high time universities valued male and female professors equally.
On International Women’s Day in 2016, a demonstrator carries a cross that reads in Spanish: “For you, for all” to protest violence against women. International Women’s Day is much more widely celebrated in Latin America than it is in Canada and the United States, but injustices for women is a global phenomenon.
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Women everywhere have low status relative to men. This is a global phenomenon and there are no exceptions, and there is much work to be done in Canada and everywhere. The time is now.
Hernán Galperin, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Sexism has long been an unfortunate feature of the workplace, but is male privilege still a problem when the gig economy makes most of our office interactions virtual?
While talks like those from Sheryl Sandberg may be empowering, this rhetoric of choice is problematic for a number of reasons.
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Interventions designed to fix women also leave the status quo untouched. They ask women to adjust to workplaces that are primarily designed by, and for, men.