How to Get a Raise in 47 Seconds: Turn Into a Man
As you may know, the United States is not the only country with a gender wage gap. This ad from Sweden claims that the quickest way for a woman to earn as much as a man is to be a man.
Pay Gap Nearly Gone for Millennial Women -- But They Don't Know It
A new Pew Research Center study finds that "in spite of the dramatic gains women have made in educational attainment and labor force participation in recent decades, young women view this as a man's world." Except for many of them, it's not.
Can These Monkeys Solve the Gender Pay Gap?
So, some people did an experiment with some monkeys. This gets important for feminism later on. First the researchers let the monkeys hang out for a while and become monkey-friends. Then they put two monkeys in cages, side by side, and they had the monkeys perform a simple task (hand a pebble to a researcher) in…
New Report: the U.S. Isn't Doing So Great at the Whole Gender Equality…
Everybody sit down. The United States is not number one in the world when it comes to something. I know, it's crazy. According to the Oct 23 2012 Global Gender Gap Report from the World Economic Forum, we're only 22nd best in gender equality, right after Canada and before Mozambique. And since the United States…
Express Your Outrage About the Gender Pay Gap with These Pithy E-Cards
Despite what some faithless Bloomberg opinion writers believe, the gender pay gap is too a real thing and it really needs to disappear. Like several decades ago. Women in the workforce, on average, still earn a mere 77 cents for every dollar men earn, even if they're performing the exact same tasks as men. Like…
Husbands Who Earn Less than Wives Are Content So Long As They Have…
Income inequality among married couples can lead to competitive, alarm-clock sabotaging grudges, or at least that's how such inequality would be portrayed in a comedy about a working couple in which one partner dramatically outearns the other. In reality, according to Susan Gregory Thomas' Wall Street Journal article…
Surprise! Non-Macho Dudes Have No Problem with Women Out-Earning Them
As it just so happens, men who don't define their masculinity by how many dragons they've strangled to death, how many cans of pizza-flavored spray cheese they can suck down in five minutes, or how few tears they shed during the scene in Big Fish when Ewan McGregor plants his ladyfriend a quadrangle's worth of…
Surprise! Republican Congressmen Pay Male Employees $10,000 More Per…
Your vagina is an expensive anatomical accessory. In addition to the tampons and gynecologists, over the course of your lifetime, you can expect your vagina to gobble up thousands of dollars worth of possible earnings that you would have made yourself if only you were a man. Unsurprisingly, the pesky pay gap endures…
Earning a Certificate Is Becoming the Next Great Way to Experience the …
The economy totally sucks. It sucks so much that if you turn on any news channel or flip to the op-ed page of that newspaper you're not reading because physical, page-turning newspapers are really only good for getting ink under your fingernails, someone will be shouting or writing, "Argh! Economy! Euro! Debt crisis!…
Lady Managers Don't Reduce Pay Gap
A new report issued by a Swedish labor agency indicates that female managers don't reduce the pay gap between male and female employees. If not even perfect, stoic, ice cold, blond, Ikea-decorated egalitarian socialist paradise Sweden can overcome the pesky gendered pay gap, then what faint hope do we have in the land…
A New Sitcom About Women In The Workplace, Starring Men
ABC's remake of Charlie's Angels was canceled, but apparently the network had some leftover skirt suits. Why else would execs greenlight Bosom Buddies Deux — sorry, Work It?
New Lady CEOs Are Rolling In The Dough
The introduction of Virginia "Ginni" Rometty as the new CEO for IBM means that women are at the helms of America's top two tech companies. Rometty joins former eBay chief Meg Whitman, who became CEO of Hewlett-Packard last month, at the summit of an industry that is overwhelmingly dominated by men. Since it's a…
Self-Promotion May Be Biggest Key To Women's Success
Here's the bad news: Female professionals can do all sorts of proactive things and still lag behind men in terms of career advancement. The good news: one strategy has been shown to help — and that would be tooting your own horn.
Men Just Want The Money Now; Women Focus On The Long Haul
You know, I never tire of a male vs. female comparison piece that starts off with some slight variation on the Mars/Venus schtick. This article checked that box.
Joe Scarborough Was Making 14 Times As Much As Mika Brzezinski
This morning, Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski was on CNBC promoting her book, Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, And Getting What You're Worth. She took the opportunity to reveal that at one point, she was making one-fourteenth of what co-host and show namesake Joe Scarborough was making.
Oklahoma's "Homosexual Agenda" Rep Is At It Again
Up until recently, Oklahoma legislator Sally Kern was most famous for her homophobia and creationism. Now she's added racism and sexism to the mix — just for variety, we assume. Her "apology" for remarks on affirmative action is also a treasure.
A Visual Analysis Of The Crappy Wage Gap
Happy Equal Pay Day! Let's, um, "celebrate" the wage gap with some visual ways to understand what it is and why it exists. You can also check out Marlo Thomas's take on the progress from her 59-cent pin, and how far we still have to go. Or you can watch it put to song, Gaga style.
Britain's Pay Gap Narrows
The good: Women's salaries rose, shrinking the gap to 10.2%. The bad: There's still a 10.2% gap.
Report: Women In Management Underrepresented And Underpaid
Before the most recent recession, women lagged behind men in managerial roles — especially if they were moms.
Chamber Of Commerce Backs Off From Women's "Fetish For Money"
Despite generally being wrong about many things, a top official at the U.S. Chamber Of Commerce is rightfully apologizing for a blog post on their site accusing people concerned about pay inequality of having a "fetish for money."