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Blaming Women's Choices for the Gender Pay Gap
Attributing women’s lower pay to their own lifestyle choices is seductive. At first blush, this argument sounds reasonable. However, a closer look reveals that the language of “choice” obscures larger social forces that maintain the wage gap and the very real constraints under which women labor.

Confronting the Gender Gap in Wages
Women are winning the numbers game in the workforce. They now fill almost half of the country’s managerial jobs. Despite equal representation among the ranks of wage earners, however, women continue to come up short in their paychecks.

Learning to Ask
Our studies show that women are much less likely than men to use negotiation to get ahead and get what they want. All the negotiation advice in the world is useless if you never get to the bargaining table in the first place.Learn to ask!

Working Mothers: Challenges and Changes
Over 70% of women with young children are engaged in paid labor. Statistics show that on average, men earn 25% more than women. The largest portion of the wage disparity between men and women is attributable to employed mothers.

The Gender Wage Gap: Debunking the Rationalizations
Higher levels of education increase women’s earnings, just as they do for men. However, there is no evidence that the gender gap in wages closes at higher levels of education. If anything, the reverse is true: at the very highest levels of education, the gap is at its largest.

Gender Wage Gap: Are you paid as much as a man if he had your job?
Women working full time still earn only 77 cents for every full-time male dollar. If you’re a woman, what would you do with that extra 23 cents—an increase of nearly one-third on top of your current 77-cent paycheck—a raise that brought you up even with men?

Listening to Women: New Perspectives on Negotiation
Negotiation is the way that business gets done today. And women—the newest entrants to the business world—have powerful insights into the negotiation processes needed in today’s fast-paced environment.

Sex Discrimination: What should you do now?
So you know you’re facing unfair sex discrimination on the job. Maybe you found out your employer is systematically paying women less than men for the same work. Or you got fired as soon as you said you were pregnant. Or your male coworkers have been groping and propositioning you and the other women relentlessly, and the company won’t make them stop. Should you sue?

Occupational Ghettos
See the latest research showing there are still a great many occupations that are segregated by gender.

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