Child care has long been acknowledged as a necessary component in closing the gender
wage gap in two important ways.
Our sister from the Equal Pay Coalition reminded us that developing a system of affordable child care was the # 1 recommendation of the 2016 report on addressing the gender
wage gap in Ontario.
Wage inequality and the gender
wage gap in particular have received a lot of criticism in the tech world over the years, but this study shows there is still a ways to go in terms of closing the salary gap between men and women.
Offsetting the decline in indicators of overall wage pressure and
the wage gap in high - skill industries, the available evidence shows that the gap in wages between high - and lower - skill occupations has grown significantly in a couple of countries.
The wage gap in the legal industry, however, is a very real thing for women to consider.
While many of the statistics about
the wage gap in legal professions are very discouraging, there is one aspect that may put some of it into perspective.
It is this kind of career double standard that is contributing to the overall average
wage gap in the United States.
Based on these statistics, it is obvious that there is still a gender
wage gap in the legal profession.
Rather, factors such as stereotyping and gender bias contribute to
the wage gap in the legal profession.
Oscar - winning Hollywood actress Natalie Portman is the latest celebrity to speak out against the huge gender
wage gap in the entertainment industry.
So perhaps the economics of Wade's dating sites merely reflects the gender
wage gap in the workplace.
While our state has the smallest
wage gap in the nation, there is still a lot of work to be done.
New York currently has the narrowest
wage gap in the nation, with women earning the equivalent of 89 cents to a man's dollar.
At 10:30 a.m., NYC Public Advocate Tish James, joined by advocates and community leaders, will release a study conducted by her office detailing the gender
wage gap in the city, Manhattan.
Former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton and Public Advocate Letitia James at James» roundtable on salary history and
the wage gap in New York City.
«New York leads the nation in progressive values — setting the bar high for other states to follow suit, and it is critical that we do all we can to address
the wage gap in our country,» Cuomo said.
Three cities will host hearings beginning next week to discuss the economic impact of the gender
wage gap in New York.
The exact figure remains to be seen, but the price tag on closing the gender
wage gap in the public service and federally regulated workplaces, which together employ nearly 1.2 million people, will likely be significant.
In Louisiana, for instance, the gender pay gap is 30 %, the biggest
wage gap in the nation.
This piece looks at the gender
wage gap in athletics by comparing the paycheck of UFC female champion Ronda Rousey to those of male MMA fighters with less impressive records.
«It's concerning overall that we're seeing persistent
wage gaps in spite of heightened awareness of it,» said Daraius Irani, chief economist with the Regional Economic Studies Institute at Towson University.
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.
Not exact matches
That's not the only
wage gap visible
in this ranking.
The woman's
wage gap, meanwhile, is real:
In 2016, women working full - time were generally paid only 80 % of what men received.
Some women shy away from jobs
in fields that require long workweeks, knowing they won't have the time: a 10 percent cut
in free time for women reduces their share
in high - hour occupations by about 14 percent relative to men, according to the researcher's model.
In total, that difference
in time spent on at - home labor results
in an 11 percentage point gender
wage gap, their analysis estimates.
This certainly throws a wrench into the age - old gender
wage gap debate: the highest - paid female CEO
in America right now is 59 - year - old Martine Rothblatt — who was born a male.
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.
In fact, the authors of the study, who looked at wage data covering all U.S. companies from 1978 to 2012, found that the wage gap between the average worker at individual companies and the highest ranking executives (CEOs and other C - suiters) at those firms had only grown by a «small amount» in the past three - and - a-half decade
In fact, the authors of the study, who looked at
wage data covering all U.S. companies from 1978 to 2012, found that the
wage gap between the average worker at individual companies and the highest ranking executives (CEOs and other C - suiters) at those firms had only grown by a «small amount»
in the past three - and - a-half decade
in the past three - and - a-half decades.
This is mainly because the culture of tipping
in the UK and America is so vastly different due to the
gap in the minimum
wage.
Smaller companies, especially startups
in pre-funding stage, tend to have a smaller
wage gap.
The Economic Policy Institute reports, «the black - white
wage gaps are larger today than they were
in 1979.»
To close the median
wage gaps, women need to earn more
in comparison to men (or men need to earn less, but that would seem to be a self - defeating result for all).
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.
But there's a downside: those female managers are concentrated
in industries with the largest gender
wage gap.
You might think that more women
in management should have reduced the
wage gap, but apparently not.
In 1980 the gender wage gap was lower in occupations where women were highly represented, but by 2010 the effect was in the opposite direction — the gender wage gap is larger in positions with a higher proportion of wome
In 1980 the gender
wage gap was lower
in occupations where women were highly represented, but by 2010 the effect was in the opposite direction — the gender wage gap is larger in positions with a higher proportion of wome
in occupations where women were highly represented, but by 2010 the effect was
in the opposite direction — the gender wage gap is larger in positions with a higher proportion of wome
in the opposite direction — the gender
wage gap is larger
in positions with a higher proportion of wome
in positions with a higher proportion of women.
Hartmann believes that the dearth of women
in positions of political power is directly related to the
wage gap and their lack of power
in the business world.
In this Business News podcast Mark Pownall, Matt Mckenzie, and Katie McDonald discuss the Quintis collapse, Wheatstone's environmental conditions, Doric's Chinese joint venture,
wage gap battle, Fringe festival and land developers.
If the 13 states that increased minimum
wage levels
in 2014, including California, Ohio and New York, introduced similar legislation, or if such legislation were taken up at the federal level, that
gap, which sits at around 273:1, might begin to narrow.
With cities like Seattle raising minimum
wage significantly higher than their state's mandate ($ 15 versus $ 9.32 per hour,
in Seattle and Washington), minimum
wage gaps» effect on competition and employment is becoming an issue across the country.
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.
Asian women face the smallest
wage gap — they earn 87 % of what white men earn, resulting
in a pay
gap of 13 %.
If,
in fact, an increase
in the minimum
wage were to result
in a net increase
in nominal aggregate spending, then we could eliminate any shortfall
in aggregate demand relative to aggregate supply by merely boosting the minimum
wage to whatever level necessary to eliminate the
gap.
The
wage gap is a far more complicated phenomenon than can be communicated
in a single statistic.
The ride - sharing replaced its car icons with symbols representing the gender
wage gap — an unequal sign, to be exact —
in honor of Equal Pay Day Tuesday, aiming to raise awareness about an issue that still plagues women
in the workplace.
There was also little concern with the rise
in wage dispersion — the
gap between the income share of the top 1 % and the rest that became a part of the lexicon during the Occupy Wall street movement.
Unemployment
gaps in DMs have largely closed and
wage growth is accelerating, which should contribute to a gradual rise
in core inflation.
In other words, while it is certainly good news that women have made major inroads into management, has the unevenness of women's representation across occupations stunted progress in closing the gender wage ga
In other words, while it is certainly good news that women have made major inroads into management, has the unevenness of women's representation across occupations stunted progress
in closing the gender wage ga
in closing the gender
wage gap?
[158] Other causes include the rise
in non-cash benefits as a share of worker compensation (which aren't counted
in CPS income data), immigrants entering the labor force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters by the BLS and CPS, productivity gains being skewed toward less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill
gap - driven
wage disparity, productivity being falsely inflated by hidden technology - driven depreciation increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.
In addition to the growing wage gap between knowledge, blue - collar, and service workers, there is also a growing gap in overall wage growth between metro
In addition to the growing
wage gap between knowledge, blue - collar, and service workers, there is also a growing
gap in overall wage growth between metro
in overall
wage growth between metros.