We hear a lot about the pay gap and there certainly is one. But what we're learning is that the pay gap isn't all about discrimination. The choices women make matter too. Nothing is all or nothing! - InPower Editors (updated May 13, 2016) Finding: Everyone agrees there is still an equal pay gap...
We hear a lot about the pay gap and there certainly is one. The official data says women earn $0.77 to the dollar that men do, but what we're learning is that the pay gap isn't all about discrimination. The choices women make matter too. Nothing is all or nothing! - InPower Editors Source:...
Title: Women in Technology - High Performance Entrepreneurs Study: High Performance Entrepreneurs: Women in High-Tech (Illuminate Researchers, Illuminate Ventures, 2011) Finding: In the last decade women in technology have played a bigger part in tech startups than ever before, and their...
Title: Women Entrepreneurs Are Driving the Economy Through the Gender Gap Study: Overcoming the Gender Gap: Women Entrepreneurs as Economic Drivers (Lesa Mitchell, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2011) Finding: While women have broken through the glass ceiling, they seem to encounter 'glass...
Title: Research Says: Sexism Lives on Screen Study: The Status of Women in the US Media, 2014 (Women's Media Center, 2014) Finding: While women in general are under-represented in movies, radio, TV and digital forms of media, women of color are more dramatically absent and the sports news coverage...
Study: Taking Gender into Account: Theory & Design for Women's Leadership Development (Ely-Harvard Business School, Ibarra-INSEAD, Kolb-Simmons, 2011) Finding: Subtle, "second generation" forms of gender bias operate in corporate culture, but skill building programs that recognize these biases...
Study: The Business Benefits of Gender Diversity and Working Women on the Front Lines (Gallup, Badal, 2014) Finding: The study of more than 800 business units from two companies representing two different industries -- retail and hospitality -- finds that gender-diverse business units have...
Study: What Women Want in Their Leaders (Harvard Business Review, 2012, Vongalis-Macrow, Gallant) Finding: The assumption that "what women want" is to work for women, isn't necessarily true. InPower Insight: Leadership is gender neutral. Summary: In a study where mid-career women were surveyed...
Title: Women on boards get better deals in mergers and acquisitions Study: Women directors get better deals in mergers and acquisitions (Li, Sauder School of Business, 2013) Finding: The more women on a corporate board the less a company pays for its acquisitions. InPower Insight: Women's...
Title: Women in Philanthropy Have A Big Impact Study: The 2011 Study of High Net Worth Women's Philanthropy (Osili and Mesch, The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University 2011) Finding: Women are actively involved with the charities they support. InPower Insight: Women in...
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