After working for 19 years at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., someone finally told her — via an anonymous note — that she was making thousands of dollars
less than her male colleagues with the same job.
By now you know the backstory: Ledbetter worked for 19 years as a supervisor at Goodrich Tire and Rubber, only to discover near the end of her career that she was earning 20 percent
less than her male colleagues.
On Monday, Department of Labor officials claimed Google, who is a federal contractor, systematically pays female workers
less than their male colleagues.
An audit of their pay data concluded that the company had shortchanged 753 female consultants and managers, paying
them less than their male colleagues in similar positions.
The results also revealed that tenured female professors earned about 8 percent
less than male colleagues.
And if you do discover that you're being paid
less than your male colleagues, what can you do about it?
OK, so after talking numbers, you found out that unfortunately, you are being paid
less than your male colleagues.
Shortly after finding out that she was making thousands
less than her male colleagues, the woman pictured above left her company for another role in tech where she now feels she is being compensated more fairly.
Getting paid
less than a male colleague for the same work?
Ledbetter had been paid
less than her male colleagues for about a decade, both genders receiving periodic pay raises, but the woman receiving smaller ones.
On the eve of Equal Pay Day, London law firm Hodge Jones & Allen reminds women of the steps they can take if they believe they are being paid
less than their male colleagues.
One thing that I would like to highlight was that five years after leaving my corporate engineering job I discovered that I was being paid significantly
less than my male colleagues.
If almost half of all lawyers working in - house are women, why does it appear that 69 per cent of them are earning
less than their male colleagues?
Not exact matches
The three women filed a class - action lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court alleging that Google put them in
lesser jobs
than their
male colleagues, which resulted in lower pay, and denied them promotions that would have advanced their careers.
The move, first reported by Bloomberg Law, would scale back a 2013 Obama - era policy, known as Directive 307, which had expanded the DOL's ability to investigate and sanction federal contractors that showed a pattern of paying female workers and employees of color
less than their white
male colleagues.
It also notes that white
males «view diversity as
less critical to MIT's core value of excellence»
than their African - American and Hispanic
colleagues.
Now, a study of nearly 1 million engineering paper co-authorships puts hard numbers on the problem in this
male - dominated scientific field, and finds a paradoxical trend: Female engineers are publishing in slightly more prestigious journals on average
than their
male colleagues, but their work is getting
less attention.
Female postgraduates more often have an uneasy relationship with their supervisor
than males, feel
less accepted by their senior
colleagues, and have a
less positive view of their academic environment.
They are paid # 2000 a year
less on average
than their
male colleagues.
She argued that her research support had been minimal, that she had been granted far
less lab space
than her
male colleagues, and that she had been pushed into working on a defense contract that impeded more prestigious research.
And for the first time in her career, she felt that the common thread was gender — that she was of
less account
than her
male colleagues and that her accomplishments were all but invisible in a primarily
male world.
A member of the New York school of Abstract Expressionists who was
less widely recognized
than male colleagues like Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning, Ms. Passlof had been immersed since the 1950s in the heady, impecunious cultural ferment of Downtown Manhattan.
Less well known
than that of some of her
male colleagues — in part because she lacked promotional skills — Fine's work has recently received the attention it has long been due in exhibitions that provide new insight into Abstract Expressionism and in one - artist shows, including a traveling retrospective organized by Hofstra University in 2009.
There's a good chance you're making shamefully
less money
than your
male colleague, but won't know unless you talk about it.
A 2014 report from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management revealed that in 1992, women in white collar government jobs were earning 30 percent
less (or 70 cents on the dollar)
than what their
male colleagues earned By 2012 they were making 13 percent
less (or 87 cents on the dollar).