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Massive gender pay gap for women in finance

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Did someone say that women suffer no discrimination?? Here is a great article from Fortune dispelling this myth. Here is a quote: “The bank revealed that it pays female employees in the U.K. an average of 56% less than their male colleagues, a disparity that widens to 72% when year-end bonuses are factored in. A significant factor:

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Four WRONG stereotypes lead to women getting less money

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Here is a great article in HBR on why women entrepreneurs tend to get less funding. Four harmful stereotypes were identified (and disproved): Women are cautious; women are reluctant to grow their businesses; women don’t have resources and women’s ventures under-perform. All are false. We need to challenge these assumptions AND ALSO a much deeper biases that

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Best Solutions to the Gender Gap by PwC!

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Must read. I just saw the new report on gender equality published by PwC. Its called Time to Talk: What Has to Change for Women at Work. It suggests three actions: Transparency around pay and promotion; Strategic support for women including sponsoring women; and a new model for work-life balance that includes parenting time, re-entry programs

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Lean Out- How to Dismantle the Barriers that Hold Women Back

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I am excited to tell you that I got mentioned in SLAW, Canada’s largest legal blog! Here is an excerpt.  Why Lawyers Need to Lean Out and Not Lean In “Enough about the glass ceiling. It’s time to redesign the building so that women and men at all levels can be good employees and good

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Research shows adding one woman candidate can reduce implicit bias

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One women candidate is not enough Here is an excerpt from this recent research suggesting if we simply add women to the  “pool” we can shift gender bais! Cool.  “Despite the ever-growing business case for diversity, roughly 85% of board members and executives are white men. This doesn’t mean that companies haven’t tried to change. Many have

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