Jobs w/ the worst gender pay gap:
Securities, commodities, fin svcs sales: men $136K; women $75K
Financial clerks: $89K vs $52K
Cardiovascular tech: $84K vs $51K
Title examiners: $83K vs $52K
Personal fin advisers: $132K vs $83K
Credit counselors: $95K vs $62K
https://www.newser.com/story/362669/these-jobs-have-the-worst-gender-pay-gap.html
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Pursuing diversity, equity & inclusion bc it is morally right & aligned w/ company values helps to be better able to stand up to criticisms or attacks. It firmer ground than hoping that "if we get two more Latinos on the board, our stock price will go up."
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/03/nx-s1-5281168/corporate-america-dei-trump-diversity-business-stakeholder-capitalism
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Not only is Trump sunsetting DEI programs in federal govt but is also "pausing" ERGs, which help workers navigate workplace dynamics. Without them, "How do you stand shoulder to shoulder with folks that, just because they’re male, they’re getting listened to more?” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/trump-dei-women-minorities-stem-rcna189879
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Marriage rates for women without college degrees are falling, while rates for those with four-year degrees are holding steady. 71% of women with a bachelor's degree, born in 1980, were married by age 45 vs 52% of women w/o a degree.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/31/marriage-gap-women
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Daughterhood penalty: Adults aged 65+ who need long term care are 50% more likely to be cared for by daughters than by sons. Study finds women caring for aging parents experienced 4.2% decrease in wages, even though they don't reduce hours or leave their job. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelletravis/2025/01/28/combating-hidden-career-penalties-against-women-who-provide-eldercare/
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As a teenager, Taylor Swift's record company wanted her to collaborate w/ established songwriters (middle aged men). Instead she wrote songs relatable to her demographic. Instead of dismissing her fanbase (young women) as hysterical, she validated their devotion. https://hbr.org/2025/03/the-strategic-genius-of-taylor-swift
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Meritocracy is an illusory social ideal, which does not work and instead only exacerbates inequality. The problem is that our biases color perceptions of other people's merit. Example: when men evaluated on potential; women on performance.
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/30/how-meritocracies-make-the-rich-richer/
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Study (N=785 private orgs; 1990-1997 before & after FMLA) finds women's managerial representation increased 5% after FMLA was enacted. Most pronounced in orgs that already offered maternity leave. Public policy aligned w/ org policy reinforces women's status.
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/fmla-may-be-weak-it-does-help-women-advance-workforce
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Contrary to the belief that women talk more than men, study (N=2,197 people, 631K recordings; 2005-2019) finds women spoke slightly more words per day than men, but the difference was small & not statistically significant—about 1,073 words on average.
https://www.psypost.org/do-women-really-talk-more-than-men-scientists-have-a-surprising-answer-in-huge-new-replication-study/
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Invisible labor often falls to women, who may get backlash if they don't do it:
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Let's not normalize any parent but especially the birthing parent returning to work only one week after having a baby.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/01/27/kim-caldwell-birth-tennessee-basketball-coach/
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In my Google News feed, today I chose the option to hide "The White House" source for articles. No need to clog up my feed with propaganda.
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Study of 61 nations finds higher sexism predicts lower GDP, lower "global peace index" (more militarization, lower safety and security), greater antidemocratic practices & shorter lifespans. Sexism truly harms us all, men, women, children.
https://theconversation.com/sexism-linked-to-social-ills-for-men-and-women-finds-largest-cross-cultural-study-of-its-kind-247183
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Academic medicine study (N=674K; 1979-2019) finds Asian men, Asian women, Black women & white women more likely than white men to be appointed to entry-level positions, but white men more likely to be promoted to the upper ranks.
https://www.kumc.edu/about/news/news-archive/faculty-promotion-and-retention-research.html
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For fairer work cultures, tweak your hiring, promoting, performance rating, meetings & policies. Ex: resumes list # of years in a specific job instead of dates. Interviews w/ structured q's about tasks rather than looking for nebulous "fit".
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2025-01-24/trump-target-dei
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Study (N=188) measuring social influence via Twitter data finds men benefit from dominance; women from prestige (competence & cooperation). Over time the effects of dominance decline for both men & women (due to less likability), while effects of prestige increase. https://www.psypost.org/dominance-benefits-men-and-prestige-benefits-women-in-social-influence-but-time-equalizes-these-effects-study-finds/
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Unlimited PTO has limits, but they are secret & vary from dept to dept, boss to boss. If an employee uses too much, they can look bad; too little, they are doing extra work. It punishes the conscientious. Better to give generous PTO & make sure staff use it. https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/ive-been-an-hr-professional-for-25-years-and-i-absolutely-hate-unlimited-pto/91130552
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The beauty brand e.l.f. is standing firm with DEI. "There’s nothing wrong with being Richard, Rick or Dick, but we wanted to shine a light on ‘let’s give other people a chance’ because we’ve seen the benefits in our own business,” e.l.f. CEO Tarang Amin.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/25/business/elf-beauty-dei-support/index.html
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Not all companies are capitulating to drop DEI. Some are reaffirming that respecting and valuing their employees is good for business: Goldman Sachs, Costco and JPMorgan Chase.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/companies-sticking-dei-amid-backlash/story?id=118037109
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"The heart of every anti-DEIA argument is that for every job, there is one person more qualified than anyone else... And it is DEIA policies which prevent that one person—unerringly a white man—from achieving their own personal manifest destiny."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/trump-dei-emails-rubio-federal-employees-narc-snitch.html
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