After a few weeks off to focus on our #POWHERList Campaign it is time to give you one hefty roundup of news (added in a bonus video) to make sure you are up to date on news before you head to the polling booths. Though “only a midterm” election, it is still one that matters especially for women’s issues such as equal pay so make sure you take some time today to vote!
ELECTION DAY SPECIALS
1. For women walking into the voting booth.
2. For women choosing to run to the voting booth.
IN OTHER NEWS
Vox- Women are better represented in state legislatures today than they were in the 1970s, but there’s been very little progress in gender parity since the late 1990s.
4. You might want to sit down for this: The U.S. is 65th in world on gender pay gap.
CNNMoney– Currently, there’s no country in the entire world where a woman earns as much as a man for doing the same job. And it’s going to take another 81 years for the gender gap to close, according to a new report by the World Economic Forum. Sure, the gap is narrowing. Very slowly.
The U.S., for instance, narrowed its wage gap by one percentage point to 66% in one year “meaning that women earn about two-thirds of what men earn for similar work according to the perception of business leaders,” WEF’s economist Saadia Zahidi said. The U.S. also ranked 65th in wage equality among 142 countries in the report.
5. “Nice Girls Don’t Negotiate” (Do we need to comment more?)
Forbes– A survey of women CEOs at 2500 of the world’s largest publicly-traded companies in the last ten years by Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company) shows that in eight of the last ten years there have been more female CEOs entering the global workforce than leaving it. The study also shows male and female CEOs have similar backgrounds: they are roughly the same age, come from the same region as corporate headquarters, have little international work experience, and only rarely achieve the joint CEO-Chairman title. Problem is, they are still underpaid: women CEOs on average make 80-cents on the dollar compared to their male counterparts, according to a 2013 survey by the Institute for Women’s Policy research based on US Labor Department statistics. But even that is an improvement: two years ago, women CEOs made 69-cents compared to each dollar made by male CEOs.
6. RESOURCE: One stop shop for all your pregnancy right needs.
A Better Balance– To mark the anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, a new resource was developed by A Better Balance to help educate parents, parents-to-be, and caregivers about their rights in the workplace.
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