The Buzz: A Word on Black Women’s Equal Pay Day
We post something every year on Black women’s Equal Pay Day. We sound like a broken record. Our message is the same.
Read Moreby Mary-Frances Winters | Sep 22, 2022 | 0
We post something every year on Black women’s Equal Pay Day. We sound like a broken record. Our message is the same.
Read Moreby Mareisha N. Reese | Aug 5, 2021 | 0
Equal Pay Days should not be a “thing” anymore, because there are tangible action steps organizations and institutions can take to close the gap. Closing the pay gap is not rocket science. Those in power just have to want to do it. This is not complex; this is tangible. Just fix it already. Pay Black women… and all women… their worth.
Read Moreby Mary-Frances Winters | May 13, 2021 | 0
There are many unanticipated and unwanted consequences from the pandemic, and women leaving the workforce in unprecedented numbers is one of them. In the last year, four times as many women left the workforce as men and the unemployment rate for women at the end of 2020 was 30 percent. This situation could reverse the gains in workplace gender equity made over the past 50 years. This is a huge issue globally, and I am only touching on implications in the U.S.
Read Moreby Mareisha N. Reese | Mar 25, 2021 | 0
Here we go again. Every year we recognize Equal Pay Day, the day that symbolizes how much extra women must work to be paid what men were paid the year prior. And every year we write about it in The Inclusion Solution. Every year, the media talks about it with alarm and dismay. And yet, nothing has changed. Black women, Native American women and Latina women earn 63 cents, 60 cents and 55 cents, respectively, to the dollar of their white men colleagues.
Read Moreby Mary-Frances Winters | Aug 13, 2020 | 0
Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is today, August 13, because this is the day that a Black woman must work into the new year to make what a white non-Hispanic man made at the end of the previous year. Black women, on average, earn sixty-two cents to every dollar that a white man earns. Society holds deep-seated biases about the worth of Black women that date back to slavery. We need to own up to these harsh realities and correct these gross pay inequities.
Read Moreby Leigh Morrison | Aug 29, 2019 | 0
This month, the U.S. Soccer Federation hired two lobbying firms to challenge the recent accusation that players on its women’s teams are underpaid. This organization had an opportunity to be a high-profile example of how to get things right regarding equal pay for equal work… and they botched it.
Read Moreby Mareisha N. Reese | Jul 18, 2019 | 0
Last week the United States women’s national soccer team (USWNT) defeated the Netherlands in the Women’s World Cup, their second consecutive title. And, last week, I (and much of the country) fell in love with Megan Rapinoe.
Read Moreby Brittany J. Harris | Jul 11, 2019 | 0
When we kicked off the “Let’s Get Practical” series, it was in response to a common sentiment we’ve heard from clients and colleagues, alike, after they’d experienced new learning around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI): “What can I do now?”
We get it. Equity and inclusion can sometimes feel like abstract concepts—and when met with altruistic intentions and a greater sense of urgency to “make a difference,” action can feel overwhelming…
Read Moreby Mary-Frances Winters | Feb 4, 2016 | 0
I often informally mentor young women who might come to me to ask, “what would you do” or “what do...
Read Moreby Mary-Frances Winters | Jun 12, 2014 | 0
Dr. Deborah Ashton, Chief Diversity Officer at Novant Health, recently released a study of pay...
Read Moreby Mary-Frances Winters | Apr 17, 2014 | 0
Women make 77 cents to every dollar a man makes, a disparity which has not changed in the past...
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