Women in the U.S. earn 81 cents for every dollar men make in 2020. That’s the raw gender pay gap, “which looks at the median salary for all men and women regardless of job type or worker seniority,” Payscale explains in a 2020 report on the state of the pay gap. The...
Women are opening new businesses at faster rates than men despite historic barriers to capital, pay and assumptions about women’s roles at home and in the workplace. According to the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, women owned just 4 out of 10...
Women Entrepreneurs and Beginnings I have always loved starting from the beginning and creating. From the beginning, I knew that the business was going to be a success. Why? Because there was a need and a void that was waiting to be filled. The excitement was in...
The value of women’s work, both paid and unpaid, has never been more apparent than during the coronavirus crisis. As Diane Coyle recently noted in The Times, women’s shift into paid employment was one of the great economic transformations in recent history, but it did...
Mbali Hlongwane, founder of Pink Codrs Africa, found an unlikely ally in her fight to get more African women coding and into STEM careers: South African soccer team, Kaizer Chiefs Football Club. According to Hlongwane, Pink Codrs Africa, an organisation of female...
by Anne Manning, Colorado State University Increasing gender diversity has been a long-sought goal across many of the sciences, and interventions and programs to attract more women into fields like physics and math often happen at the undergraduate level. But is...
