In our recent report we explored race - and gender - based
salary gaps in Illinois.
For example, in 1985 they printed a poster showing that
the salary gap in the art world between men and women was starker than the United States average, proclaiming «Women in America earn only 2/3 of what men do.
Not exact matches
While the researchers didn't dig to find out why some states have wider pay
gaps than others, they noted that
in recent years, California and New York have banned employers from asking job applicants about their previous
salaries.
In a
salary analysis that looked at the earnings of more than 14,000 graduate business school alumni, GMAC found that female alumni experience a significant wage
gap throughout their careers.
Out of the 25 metros, the narrowest gender wage
gap overall is
in Tampa, Florida, where women make approximately 89 % of the median
salary for men — higher than the national average.
«I met the gender
gap when I started my professional career,
in an industry where there reportedly isn't a gender
gap in salary.
The women reportedly got paid lower
salaries and smaller bonuses than their male peers, even after weighing differences
in education, experience, and other factors that could explain the pay
gaps.
Uber also raised
salaries for all employees to help close the gender pay
gap in July of 2017 — an endeavor that likely cost hundreds of millions of dollars, as The Information reported at the time.
Moving on from it all for this season i fear for worst to come next season (just had a deja vu i say the same thing every season around this time) City already are talking spending 600 Million
in the next two to three years on new players and you can bet Man - U will follow to try and close the
gap, Liverpool can sell one player and buy an entire squad, Chelsea owner Abromovich has started to make noise's about next season so they will be spending, spuds will try to keep their existing players with one or two additions to strengthen and some
salary rises to keep the elite, and Arsenal will go head to head with the likes of Burnley Everton Leicester for average players signature, and the board will make sure even if they replace AW they will replace him with AW No2 who will do what the board decides on who and how much to spend
His our main super star no doubt but the
gap in salaries between 1, 2, 3 and the rest should not be very big.
I think we will win tonight by a couple go goals but you never know... and if we do lose then wenger has no option but to go he has staked his managerial acumen and reputation on getting
in to cl... this has nothing to do with loss of giroud... We are amongst the richest half dozen clubs on planet besiktas survive on a wing and a prayer and I have no idea the
salary gap between wenger and bilic but obviously huge... So no excuses wenger win or resign and take the yank with you too
Wearing my baby
in a frontpack when I go out for a walk doesn't make me a «tool,» and it also isn't the reason for the continuing gender
gap in workplace
salaries.
Marking Equal Pay Day, Cuomo advanced legislation to prohibit all employers, public and private, who do business
in New York, from asking prospective employees about their
salary history and compensation, putting the state New York on track to close the gender wage
gap.
Cuomo, meanwhile, released a bill that would ban employers from asking about a job applicant's prior
salary amount, to try to correct what the governor says is a «persistent gender wage
gap»
in New York and the nation.
Former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton and Public Advocate Letitia James at James» roundtable on
salary history and the wage
gap in New York City.
A bill released Tuesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and sent to state lawmakers would ban employers
in New York from seeking wage and
salary histories from prospective employees, a move designed to curtail the pay
gap between men and women.
Income Data Services report that the starting
salary for teachers is now 20 % below that of other graduate professions and the
gap widens the longer teachers remain
in the job.
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) annual
salary report showed the gender pay
gap increased from 9.5 %
in 2012 to ten per cent
in 2013.
James, who became the first woman of color to hold citywide office four years ago, has sued the city at least 11 times and spearheaded the passage of a bill that prohibits employers from asking job applicants about their
salary history
in an effort to close the pay
gap between women and men.
At issue was Democratic candidate Pam Harris's nonprofit, Coney Island Generation
Gap, which Republican contender Lucretia Regina - Potter pointed out is headquartered
in her opponent's home — and alleged that Ms. Harris received rent and a
salary from the publicly - funded organization.
Why doesn't Gov. Cuomo talk more about the hugh income and wealth
gap in the state; more about having the wealthy pay their fair share; talking about the hugh bonuses and
salaries on Wall Street; and the already existing stock transfer tax (16 - 18 billion revenue)?
Banning questions about
salary history will not end the pay
gap, but it is an important tool
in the fight.»
«I chose to come back to France
in spite of the
salary gap,» Lejeune explains.
A
salary gap by gender is especially important
in nursing because this profession is the largest
in health care and is predominantly female, affecting approximately 2.5 million women.
Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act, the male - female
salary gap has narrowed
in many occupations.
A 1975 survey of faculty
salaries in higher education by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) showed that women made 10 % less than men, which wasn't bad, considering that the wage
gap for all professions then was 41 %.
For full professors the
salary gap has widened from 9 %
in 1975 to 12.5 %
in 1998; associate and assistant professors also have fallen farther behind.
Marx - Feree says that if universities worked to mend the gender
salary gap instead of fighting expensive court battles, the
salary gap would be smaller, and «they would've saved money
in the long run.»
Despite the apparently gloomy picture, a few other universities across the country, like the CSU system, are starting to make a dent
in the
salary gap.
By Jennifer Nguyen A gender
gap in salaries persists across most career stages for those employed
in the life sciences, according to the 2016 Life Sciences
Salary Survey published this week.
Once the show began, the messages
in support of women and equality didn't stop: Natalie Portman, while presenting best director with Ron Howard, noted how only men had been nominated (Lady Bird filmmaker Greta Gerwig was a high profile snub); presenters Jessica Chastain and Geena Davis, respectively, also made jokes about male acting winners giving their
salary away to make up for the gender pay
gap.
It is important to keep
in mind, however, that the differences observed between all of these groups are dwarfed by the overall
gap between the public's understanding of school expenditures and teacher
salaries, and the truth.
The usually invisible budget
gaps stem from differences
in faculty
salaries, which tend to be lower for schools with more low - performing students and more students from low - income families.
Also, the partisan
gap among those uninformed of current
salary levels persists, and
in fact it seems to be growing.
Democratic partisans are anywhere between 14 and 25 percentage points more supportive of higher teacher
salaries than Republicans are, with the
gap 10 percentage points wider
in 2015 and 2016 than it had been
in 2008 and 2009.
Thus, even if school districts did succeed
in reducing the
gap in access to effective teaching with their own personnel policies, they would inevitably have to reduce other services to pay for them, e.g., larger class sizes, or lower base
salaries.
The discriminatory impact of this compromise lessened as the gender
gap in master's degree attainment narrowed, and more subtle means of discrimination were hampered by nearly universal adoption of the uniform
salary schedule, with teachers» pay based only on experience and education.
John King told Michel Martin of NPR, differences
in teacher experience levels (and therefore, differences
in salary) are «a very large driver» of such school spending
gaps.
Stir
in lack of teacher mobility, inadequate induction programs, poor working conditions, the lowest unemployment
in three decades, and a growing
salary gap between teachers and other college graduates — a difference of more than $ 32,000 for experienced teachers with master's degrees — and you have created the worst shortage of qualified teachers ever.
Considering that school district
salaries are typically determined by a single districtwide
salary schedule,
in theory education should be a field without gender - or race - based pay
gaps.
Part of the problem
in attempting to close the diversity
gap is that recent graduates from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds are discouraged from becoming teachers due to the cost of teacher preparation programs, which is compounded by low entry - level teacher
salaries.
Take our first finding — the presence of large teacher
salary gaps between the highest - and lowest - poverty schools
in most of the 20 districts.
«When you look at teacher
salaries, it's just impossible for them to get into the housing market,» says Ned Murray, associate director of Florida International University's Metropolitan Center, which studies the
gap between income and housing
in Miami.
Their
salaries are on average only 10 - 18 percent less, compared to a 25 - 33 percent
gap in this country.
Data show, for example, that the «teacher pay penalty» (the
gap between teacher
salaries and those of similarly educated professionals) has grown from 1.8 percent
in 1994 to 17 percent
in 2015 (Allegretto & Mishel, 2016).
And because teacher
salaries make up about 60 percent or so of the typical district's budget, these data demonstrate some fairly hefty
gaps in spending between schools that serve more students of color and those that serve fewer such students.
What's commonly been defined as the district's budget
gap in the past — the difference between the cost to continue existing programs and
salaries and what the district is allowed to tax under state revenue caps — is actually $ 1.2 million.
In secondary academies, pay drops for both genders, but there is a bigger
gap between
salaries: men (# 37,500), women (# 36,500).
The Great Hearts Greater Good fund allows Maryvale Prep and Teleos Prep teachers to focus on closing the achievement
gap by enabling us to maintain small class sizes, helping pay
salaries to our qualified teachers who specialize
in urban education and helping to provide school supplies, uniforms and special education and ESL (English as a Second Language) materials.
But due to the way pensions are structured
in Nevada and many other states, those plans also amplify
salary - based pay
gaps between men and women and educators and non-educators.