Starbucks Executive Vice President and chief Partner Officer, Lucy Helm, announced last week that the company has closed all race, sex and gender -
based wage gaps in its American operations.
Identifying ways to address inequalities like those presented at the briefing, including evidence of a persistent gender -
based wage gap and bias in NIH R01 grant proposal evaluation, is crucial for supporting female academics» career aspirations.
Not exact matches
Expert Market, a U.K. -
based product comparison site, calculated the pay
gap between genders in all 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C., using
wage data from the National Women's Law Centre.
With that cheeky introduction by host Carlos Watson, the PBS debate show Point Taken last night dove headlong into the fractious debate of salary transparency that has been gaining steam of late, especially as a way to bridge widening
wage gaps based on gender, race, and social class.
This new legislation builds on two executive orders signed by the Governor last year to eliminate the
wage gap by prohibiting state entities from evaluating candidates
based on
wage history and requiring state contractors to disclose data on the gender, race and ethnicity of employees - leveraging taxpayer dollars to drive transparency and advance pay equity statewide.
Because most states offer teacher retirement benefits
based on their salary, states are extending the gender
wage gap into retirement.
Based on these statistics, it is obvious that there is still a gender
wage gap in the legal profession.
By allowing employers to
base a prospective employee's earnings on her past salary history, the law has indirectly allowed employers to perpetuate the
wage gap.
At the rate the gender
wage gap is closing, it would take the next 135 years for it to completely shut, according to data from San Francisco -
based jobs platform Hired.
The laws intend to eliminate the «pay
gap,» suggesting that a previous salary history could lead to gender -
based wage discrimination.
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