Gender pay gap
The gender pay gap is terrible – the fact that woman are consistently paid less than men is to our shame. PICTURE: [email protected]/Unsplash But have got something fundamentally wrong in this equation. Is the way we evaluate gender difference perpetuating the problem, rather than solving it? Doesn’t an evaluation based on income simply reinforce […]
US urged to act as progress stalls on equal pay
New York CityThomson Reuters Foundation The wage gap between men and women in the United States failed to budge in 2018, government data showed on Tuesday, sparking calls for action to end pay discrimination. Women working full-time year-round earned 82 cents for every dollar earned by men last year, the US Census Bureau said, meaning […]
Women must wait 217 years to earn the same as men, index says
Thomson Reuters Foundation Women will have to wait 217 years before they earn as much as men and have equal representation in the workplace, research said, revealing the widest gap in almost a decade. Women are paid and achieve just over half as much as men in the workplace, the World Economic Forum said, reporting […]