The New York Times posted a new blog addressing gender segregation of work hours and unequal pay. Casey B. Mulligan argues that women tend to work more ‘desirable’ hours, and therefore get compensated less. Unfortunately, this argument falls into the all-too-common trap of trying to explain away gender discrimination while ignoring the larger forces of [...]
Filed under: Stereotyping, Workplace | Tagged: equal pay, Gender-Segregated, sexism, women, Workplace | 2 Comments »
The military has a reputation for being one of the sectors in which women don’t often excel. Women have been historically banned from many facets of combat participation, and today only 11% of military officers are female. Still, women are making headway, joining the ranks and challenging the notion that this is strictly a man’s [...]
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One of my graduate professors recently relayed a personal anecdote to the class, about her experiences during her very first job interview. This was…let’s just say, a few decades ago, and she was asked the following question: “Are you in love?” The class chuckled because the question is, of course, ridiculous, and completely inappropriate in [...]
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Tara Siegel Bernard, a financial reporter for the New York Times, has an article about the inequities when women negotiate for salary increases. She says first that women are less likely to ask for raises and, then, when they do make it to the table, “their requests may be perceived as overly demanding or less [...]
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Over 9,000 San Francisco hotel workers have been working without a contract since mid-August 2009 at several Hyatt, Hilton, Starwood, and InterContinental Hotels in the San Francisco Bay Area. The workers are being denied affordable health care. After failed negotiations, the workers are taking the step of calling for a boycott of their own workplaces. [...]
Filed under: GLBT, Health, Workplace | Tagged: Boycott, Gay Pride, Hotel Workers, San Franxisco, Unions | 1 Comment »
Today NPR released a few graphics depicting the gender and race pay gaps. As you can see, though the gap has been closing over the years, progress has been slow. There are still significant racial gaps. But its interesting to see that gender gap persists for all races. The accompanying article is worth a read, [...]
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It used to be much easier to prove employment gender discrimination under Title VII. Bosses and HR interviewers would say things that were clearly discriminatory. But decades of case law and training have taught employers that there are some things that should never be said. And, so, the number of times when there is an [...]
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Women and men are close to being equally represented in the lower grades of the federal workforce. However, women only make up about 29 percent at the highest level and the growth rate has slowed. The highest level of government employees is the highly competitive Senior Executive Service (SES) (this is the next level after [...]
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The official U.S. unemployment rate is 9.7 percent. However, it is nearly 16 percent among African Americans and 12.4 percent among Hispanics. The impact of those unemployment figures on unmarried African American and Hispanic women is particularly bad because their median “wealth” (assets minus debts) is an astoundingly low $100 for unmarried African American women [...]
Filed under: Race/Ethnicity, Workplace | Tagged: Insight Center for Community Economic Development | 1 Comment »
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