Gender Pay Gap: Individual or Institutional Responsibility

We Americans like to consider ourselves mavericks; people who create our own rules; people who are responsible for our own destiny and situations. It’s the cowboy way. Whether or not this is true is a completely different issue. It is this perception that guides us as we attempt to find solutions to problems. Many of…

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Now we have the Disney Princesses on our side

In case you missed the pretty widespread coverage, a well produced and fun youtube video is helping to wade in to raise increased awareness of the scandal of unequal pay , especially for an American audience. The fact that it was covered in the UK press despite its US focus is testament to its impact.…

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The pay gap – is part of the problem women and their poor negotiating skills?

The reasons for the pay gap have been given considerable attention in the UK by academics and campaigners. The traditional reasons are usually distilled into a mixture of the longstanding undervaluing of work traditionally done by women, which is also associated with the segregated of women (such as the clustering of women into the 5…

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