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- Here’s How to Reframe the Discussion of Women on Boards via Women’s ENews
We should also stop focusing on the supply of women. Too often the issue is seen as “how do we make women good candidates for leadership positions?” We try to discuss teaching women the necessary skills or making them more visible. But the real problem is not supply, but demand. The talent pool is already there. Companies need to make a greater effort to recruit from it.
- Half of America’s childcare workers need food stamps, welfare payments or Medicaid via The Washington Post
The people who are paid to watch America’s children tend to live in poverty. Nearly half receive some kind of government assistance: food stamps, welfare money, Medicaid. Their median hourly wage is $9.77 — about $3 below the average janitor’s. In a new report, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley warn that child care is too vital to the country’s future to offer such meager wages. Those tasked with supporting kids, they explain, are shaping much of tomorrow’s workforce.
- ‘Missing’ Female Managers Widen Wage Gap via the Society for Human Resource Management
Pay inequity linked to fewer women in managerial jobs during child care years. Mothers in the U.S. continue to pay the price in career advancement and wages for starting a family. New research shows that women are underrepresented in managerial positions from age 32 onward, which is linked to a widening of the gender wage gap at large U.S.employers.
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Bay Area business groups, equal pay advocates rally around new equal pay bill via The Mercury News
Minority business organizations and equal pay advocates in the Bay Area are backing an Assembly bill that aims to help close the wage gap between men and women and racial minorities.
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Massachusetts House unanimously passes pay equity bill via The Boston Globe
The Massachusetts House has passed a bill aimed at helping ensure pay equity between men and women in the workplace. The bill approved unanimously Thursday would bar employers from discriminating based on gender when it comes to wages and other compensation, unless the variation is based upon a mitigating factor like seniority. It would also prevent employers from requesting salary history when hiring.
Donna Seymour, who hails from the (far upstate) North Country of NYS, has spent 40 plus years advocating for children, women and family issues, equity, sustainability, and social justice issues. Currently serving as the Public Policy VP for AAUW-NYS (the American Association University Women), she is also a member the League of Women Voters, the Equal Pay Coalition, PTA, NOW, and Planned Parenthood, just to name a few.