In this video, students talk about when we will reach gender equality. Ten years? Fifty? Business students take their best guesses, and Melinda Gates explains why the real number is centuries away.
Read ArticleHarvard Business Review
September 24, 2019
In this video, economists go through statistics on the financial fallout over the coronavirus crisis. There's evidence that the negative impacts are being felt more by women than men. Washington Post economics correspondent Heather Long joins CBSN to discuss her reporting on how the pandemic changed women's lives in the workplace and which groups of women have been the most vulnerable.
Read ArticleCBS News
October 20, 2020
This article describes how the persistence of a gender wage gap indicates that while discrimination is ending, bias lingers. This article gives data to describe how gender bias still exists in 2021.
Read ArticlePhys.org
Bocconi University
March 24, 2021
This article discusses how gender inequality can be an entrenched issue in the office. It reveals itself in pay grade differences, lack of representation at senior level, and sometimes — incredibly — minimal intervention against gross misconduct. Reaching gender equality requires radical action in organizations.
Read ArticleHeadstart
December 14, 2020
This article asserts that as men and women work together, gender discrimination persists in 2021.
Read ArticleForbes
Bryan Robinson, PHD
February 15, 2021
Despite information and communication technology playing such a key role throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN chief said that half the world remains offline, in his message marking International Girls in ICT Day, on Thursday – most of whom are women and girls in developing countries.
Read ArticleUnited Nations
April 22, 2021
Women of color face intersectional discrimination or a double discrimination in the workforce. In other words, women of color suffer from the gender wage gap plus the racial wage gap.
Read ArticleWashington Center for Equitable Growth
Mark Paul, Darrick Hamilton & William Darity, Jr.
8/7/2018
Equality in pay for women has improved, but women still make less money on average than men for completing the same work. Women make up more than half of the low-wage workforce.
Read ArticleILA (International Labour Organization)
2020
Democrats are largely dissatisfied with progress that the United States has made towards closing the gender pay gap, while most Republicans think that enough progress has been made. Democrats and younger women are more likely to say that men have easier lives than women than Republicans and older women.
Read ArticlePew Research Center
Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Kim Parker & Renee Stepler
10/18/2017
Women tend to spend more time on unpaid work like household and family care, while men tend to spend more time on paid work. This unequal use of time makes it harder for women to advance at work and creates a gender pay gap.
Read ArticleInstitute for Women’s Policy Research
Ariane Hegewisch & Valerie Lacarte
11/14/2019
Paid family and medical leave makes it easier for employees, especially women to provide care for family members and transition back into their jobs. Parental leave makes women more likely to return to work after giving birth.
Read ArticleCenter for American Progress
Heather Boushey & Sarah Jane Glyn
4/1/2012
Women want to work and be paid equally for their work, but around the work, women are subject to workplace discrimination and are less likely to be employed full-time. Gender roles are slow to change, and women do more unpaid house and care work at home than men. One solution is to recognize, reward, reduce, and redistribute care work.
Read ArticleInternational Labour Organization
6/15/2017
Gender discrimination in the workforce comes in many forms, from women earning less than men for doing to sexual harassment. Women with higher levels of education and Black women are more likely to experience gender discrimination at work.
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Kim Parker & Cary Funk
12/14/2017
The U.S. women’s soccer team filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation. Even though they do the same job as the U.S. men’s national team, the women’s team members are paid less and have worse working conditions and publicity from their employer, U.S. Soccer.
Read ArticleWashington Post, adapted by NewsELA
6/5/2019
This article explores how Like other women of color, Latinas face multiple structural barriers in the U.S. labor market, including both gender discrimination and racial and ethnic discrimination.
Read ArticleWashington Center for Economic Growth
Kate Bahn and Will McGrew
11/1/2018
