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Gender pay gap

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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 […]

Fifth of men think media reports about gender pay gap are “fake news”

UK woman and London skyline

London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Efforts to close the gender pay gap risk stalling as countries recover from COVID-19, researchers said on Monday as a global poll showed almost a quarter of men thought the issue was “political correctness gone too far”. Although the survey spanning 28 countries revealed nearly eight in 10 people considered it […]

What pay gap? Men less aware of women’s workplace struggles – US survey

Thomson Reuters Foundation Far more men than women think their companies offer equal pay and promote the sexes equally, yet younger generations are wising up, a US entertainment industry survey found on Monday. Only a quarter of women think their employers pay them the same as men, while twice as many men believe their company […]