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Women’s and Gender Issues

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Little improvement in gender balance of Iowa county boards and commissions

Only four of Iowa’s 99 counties have achieved gender balance this year on all appointed boards and commissions, according to the 2018 Gender BalanceProject study conducted by the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women in Politics.

This is …

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Why gender equality needs to be a core value

Recently, the Women’s Forum for the Economy & Society put out a manifesto – a call for action to the G7 governments, ahead of their (now just-concluded) meeting in Quebec. It asked the G7 to …

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SPEAK UP: A new approach to combat gender bias

  An approach that helps corporations understand the biases that affect working women can help develop strategies to avoid them, write Sally D’Amato, Alexa Frank, Kelly Connors and Michelle Cho of Deloitte Consulting. This “design…
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VIDEO: How gender is shaping campaign strategy

You’ve seen the ads. Women are embracing their identities and experiences as women in campaign messaging. Christine Matthews (president, Bellwether Research; Gender Watch expert contributor) and Kelly Dittmar (CAWP scholar; Gender Watch project director) discuss …

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The gender pay gap doesn’t close — even at the very, very top

CNN Money: Of the 15 highest-paid executives in corporate America last year, two were women. The highest-paid man made nearly $244 million, according to an analysis by Equilar, an executive and board data provider. The top-paid …

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SPEAK UP: How female entrepreneurs can beat investors’ gender bias

Dana Kanze, co-founder of Moonit Labs in New York, analyzed six years of startup pitch competitions and found that 67 percent of the questions posed to male entrepreneurs were promotion-focused, while 66 percent of the …

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Gender parity has ‘halted,’ research says

For the first time since the World Economic Forum’s records began in 2006, the global gender gap is widening again, according to new research.

The World Economic Forum, best known for its annual gathering in …

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Gender pay gap larger among Iowa university administrators, data show

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Female administrators at Iowa’s public universities made 66 percent of what their male counterparts were paid last year — an even larger chasm than Iowa’s overall gender pay gap of 77 cents on …

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SPEAK UP: How companies can guard against fatigue about gender equality

Most of the corporate world has set a bold aspiration to achieve equality for women in the workplace, writes McKinsey’s Dominic Barton. Most say they are “very committed” to this goal, and just about all …

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Report: Gender pay gap pegged to lack of promotions

The gender pay gap in the United States is real but more complicated than is often reported, according to new research by PayScale Inc.


What contributes to the gap? Lack of career advancement tends to…