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For nearly two decades, the negotiation skills of working women have frequently been blamed for the gender pay gap. New research by Vanderbilt Professor Jessica A. Kennedy finds the gender ...
Gender 'pay gap' stats are misleading. When you do, it becomes clear that government efforts to “close the gap” could make lives harder for women.
A recent court decision rejecting a gender discrimination lawsuit against the University of Oregon illustrates the difference between saying men are paid more than women and saying that women...
Yet not only does the pay gap persist, but it tends to be larger for women who gain advanced business skills. New research by Berkeley Haas Professor Laura Kray shows the belief that women don’t ask for higher pay is not only outdated, but it may be hurting pay equity efforts.
On Equal Pay Day, women are trying to make a dollar out of 83 cents. Francine Blau, an economist at Cornell who has been studying the gender pay gap for decades, calls this the $64,000...
Using the statistic that women make 78 cents on the dollar as evidence of rampant discrimination has been debunked over and over again. That statistic doesn’t take into account a lot of choices...
Equal Pay Day highlights the uncontrolled gender pay gap, quantified as the gap between the median salaries of all working men and women in the U.S. and often estimated at around 79 or 80 cents...
The gender pay gap reflects: the fact that women are under-represented in senior, better paid jobs and over-represented in low-paid work; they do the majority of unpaid care work so they...
“Saying women make 77 cents to every dollar a man makes is an exaggeration.” By comparing differences in annual earnings between men and women, we find that there is about a 23 cent difference per dollar according to the Census Bureau. Women of color, in fact, suffer from an even larger wage gap.
The findings from this set of studies debunk the widespread belief that a critical explanation for the pay gap is gender differences in the tendency to negotiate. Kennedy conducted this...