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Gender Gap Extends to Women’s Financial Fitness

When Amy Friedrich asks female acquaintances whether they own life insurance, she hears a common refrain. They believe it isn’t necessary. 

“One of the things that has surprised me is they say, ‘I know I’m …
By JOE GARDYASZ | Dec 18, 2015
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SPEAK UP: A CEO’s guide to gender equality

  Progressive executives know that gender equality is not only the right thing to do but also the smart thing. That’s why more CEOs, heads of state and university leaders are committing themselves to gender-equality…
By BPC Staff | Dec 14, 2015
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Map: Closing the economic gender gap

  BizWomen.com: The World Economic Forum, which is focused on climate change recently, issued a report ranking countries that are closing the gender wage and economic opportunity gap. Not surprisingly, three northern European countries –…
By BPC Staff | Dec 14, 2015
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VIDEO: ‘It’s not a gender issue; it’s an economic issue’

      In October, NEXUS Executive Women’s Alliance announced the launch of its EPIC Corporate Challenge at a luncheon for Central Iowa CEOs at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden.

The EPIC Challenge invites…
By MEGAN VERHELST | Dec 7, 2015
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U.S. gender pay gap is getting worse

BY LIFT IOWA STAFF | @LiftIOWA

    Ladies, mark your calendars. In the year 2133, your earnings will finally match those of your male colleagues.

It will take 118 years for the economic gap…
By BPC Staff | Nov 23, 2015
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Retirement savings gap a gender crisis – study says

 

Women need to save more for retirement while earning less, according to a recent study by Financial Finesse, which provides financial education programs to more than 600 organizations. 

Although both men and women face …
By BPC Staff | Oct 26, 2015
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California Home Depot store agrees to pay $83,400 in gender bias case

For years, women at the Home Depot store in Pomona, Calif., complained that they were funneled into cashier jobs while their male co-workers landed higher-paying sales jobs. As a federal contractor, however, the company is …
By BPC Staff | Oct 5, 2015
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Gender wage gap narrows by just 1 cent

MarketWatch: The good news for women workers: The gender pay gap is narrower than anytime on record. The bad news? It narrowed by a paltry one cent. Women who worked full-time last year earned 78.6 …
By BPC Staff | Sep 21, 2015
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SPEAK UP: How to end the ‘office housework’ gender bias

  CEO Sharon Rowlands of ReachLocal insists that tasks such as taking notes during a meeting get distributed equally among co-workers. That’s because Rowlands has seen too many women get stuck with such duties in…
By BPC Staff | Aug 24, 2015
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SPEAK UP: Why more women in leadership isn’t budging the gender gap

It turns out that getting from 77 cents to $1 is a bit more complex than doling out prorated paychecks for every working woman. And achieving parity is about to get even less clear. A …
By BPC Staff | Jun 29, 2015