Sentences with phrase «gender pay inequality»

To be clear, basing salary offers on a candidate's past earnings is a poor and unfair practice that tends to reinforce racial and gender pay inequality, and ideally employers should stop doing it.

Just this week, the BBC's China editor, Carrie Gracie, resigned from her post citing gender pay inequality.

City employment partner says the broadcaster may be left exposed after moves to address gender pay inequality

The requirement to publish publically certainly forces bigger companies to think about gender pay inequality and to include as part of business planning and take issue more seriously.

Controversy over all - white acting nominees and gender pay inequality roiled recent Oscars, and protests about Latino exclusion in front of and behind the camera may hit this year's ceremony, but organisers will have an additional, more prosaic concern: getting the envelopes right.

Jennifer Lawrence just slammed the gender pay inequality in Hollywood in an essay addressing revelations from the Sony Hack that she was earning way less than her male co-stars in American Hustle.

«The light touch, voluntary approach to tackling gender pay inequality is clearly failing.

Blocking men from taking on less hours has implications for gender pay inequality and organisation agility.

Not exact matches

On a national scale, leaders such as Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, and California Senator Kamala Harris are trying to address the issue of gender inequality, including efforts to close the pay gap.

The purpose of the policy is to eliminate gender inequality in pay, Pao said, citing research that shows bargaining makes for an uneven playing field.

Shareholder proposals on pay equity at Alphabet (née Google) and Facebook are unlikely to gain majority support, but may nonetheless mark a turning point on gender inequality within the tech sector.

Just weeks after Jennifer Lawrence made headlines for speaking out against the gender pay gap in Hollywood, a new study confirms that Hollywood has a big problem when it comes to gender inequality.

It also is one of few to look at gender inequality issues among health professions beyond pay disparities, and among the first of its kind to highlight how political regimes and governance issues influence health workforce production.»

Co-author Prof Michelle Ryan noted: «Understanding the nature of gender differences in risk taking is particularly important as the assumption that women are risk averse is often used to justify ongoing gender inequality — such as the gender pay gap and women's under - representation in politics and leadership»

AbuSulayman said «a lot has been accomplished to close the pay gap in gender inequality..

Or, as Dr Meagan Tyler, a research fellow at RMIT University who specialises in gender inequality, puts it: «[The men] are paying [the women] to not be a full human being.

But if he doesn't, remember that the tradition derives from the depths of gender inequality; his decision not to pay for the first date is likely neither an indication of his frugality nor a reflection of how he feels about you — it probably just means he's a modern day man.

In January, the #MeToo movement gave way to Time's Up, a coalition of 300 (and growing) prominent women in Hollywood standing up against the systemic problem of not only sexual misconduct, but also to address the imbalance of power in the workforce confounded by issues of gender disparity in jobs and pay leading to ongoing injustice and inequality.

This problem — a systemic imbalance of power in the workforce confounded by issues of gender disparity in jobs and pay leading to ongoing injustice and inequality — is what led 300 prominent women in Hollywood, including Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and America Ferrera, to form a coalition called Time's Up.

The Sony Hack revealed that Jennifer Lawrence, the highest paid actress in Hollywood, is not saved from experiencing gender inequality.

The attention - grabbing headline is likely the first of many that will shine a light on Hollywood's gender and racial pay inequality.

The gender pay gap is widening and discrimination and inequality are rife in the system.

OTTAWA — Age, not gender, is increasingly at the heart of income inequality in Canada, says a new study that warns economic growth and social stability will be at risk if companies don't start paying better wages.

It faces tremendous poverty, a changing climate, gender inequality, fluctuating markets, societies that condone child labour, and human greed that always wants the cheapest deal and doesn't want to pay a fair price for it.

«The current rate of progress towards closing the gender pay gap is too slow and gender pay gap reporting is an important step towards tackling both the symptoms and causes of gender inequality in the workplace.

Fieldfisher trainee Charles Carman and UCL law student Klara Iochem want to reveal the hidden inequalities within law firms through a new «Remuneration Disclosure Requirement», which would effectively force firms to reveal their gender and ethnicity pay gaps by disclosing all lawyer and partner salaries to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

Their research — «Gender and the Tournament: Reinventing Antidiscrimination Law in an Age of Inequality» — uncovered the amazing (or not) fact that U.S. women in the top 95 per cent of earners make only 73.8 per cent of men's take - home pay.

As a way of celebrating women, this year's International Women's Day's focus is on highlighting the combat for ending gender inequalities in the work place by promoting diversity and equal pay for female workers.