While Equal Pay Day sounds like something women can celebrate, it’s actually the day where women’s wages finally catch up to the men’s. On April 12, 2011 women have finally earned what the men made last year, by working an additional 102 days. Although women can feel some sense of satisfaction considering the great strides ...
Most men are blissfully unaware of the fact that women still face a glass ceiling at work. A survey of over 3,000 people found that only 38% of men thought that women faced barriers in senior management whereas 73% of women thought there were barriers. This was from members of a British group called Institute of Leadership ...
Lesbians make more money than straight women — about 6% more, on average. The interesting thing is that although no one knows why this is, everyone has an opinion. Sure, lesbian women are better-educated on average, are more likely to be white, live predominantly in cities, have fewer children, and are significantly more likely to ...
We all know about the wage gap. In the US, women make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes. They don’t do much better in the UK, earning 79p for every pound their penis-carrying colleagues take home. It is estimated that women have to work 13 more years before retirement. But none of this ...
You know the age-old complaint that women get paid less than men? Well it turns out this might not be true. Recent research in the USA has found that this gap mostly exists among older people, but among the people under 30 women out earn men in 39 to 50 of the largest cities. ...
The Equal Pay Act was created in Britain forty years ago to help reduce the salary differences between men and women. A study was just released to say that male and female salaries will not be equal until at least 2067! The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) surveyed over 43,000 employees in 197 organizations. Some findings: senior ...
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