Gender Pay Gap
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Diversity is essential to innovation. So it’s a sad to witness the enduring paradox of white male dominance in a sector such as tech. While there’s much left to do; however, in this guest post Ben Barlow looks at some hopeful signs emerging from the Fintech sector.
Fintech came under criticism recently when it was reported that it is trailing far behind other industries. Especially in terms of having women employed at senior levels. The Financial Times reported worrying statistics on the percentage of women executives in Fintech globally.
The current percentage of women occupying executive positions is just 8%…
Some of the best available strategies to attract and retain women may be things your company simply doesn’t want to do.
Research has shown that companies with greater gender diversity perform better. So if you’re a technology company, you probably want to hire more women. But if your company doesn’t support women’s careers, you’ll be wasting their time and yours.
One of the most important things you can do is also one of the most obvious, and it’s not actually that hard. Make sure you are paying women the same as you pay men.
The other is harder. You must make hostile behaviour unacceptable in the workplace.
Hiring qualified women
The gender diversity problem in tech is often talked about as a “pipeline problem”…
Think you understand how women experience the tech workplace? Well, whether you do or don’t, we recommend reading “Brotopia” by Emily Chang. This well-written, well-researched book will be eye-opening. From porn images used to test algorithms, to interviews and meetings held at strip clubs, to violent threats from online trolls, this book unfortunately has it all. And we bet it will inspire you to do more to create inclusive workplaces, for women and frankly everyone.
Armed with that inspiration, here are 5 things you can do to start pruning any blossoming brotopia at your tech company.
1. Identify and fix any gender pay gap. Now.
I’m going to get this out of the way — every time I hear a certain seasonal Mariah Carey song, I am filled with a (probably) irrational level of rage. (It may not surprise you to learn that I’m not a very Christmassy person!) But hearing it for the first time this year made me think of something I actually want for Christmas.
A Cautionary Tale
About six months ago, a friend of mine was moving on from the company she’d been with since leaving university. She had taken on many different roles in the company from technical SEO, outreach/influencer marketing, content marketing…
Single women earned 92 cents for every dollar of home equity earned by single men in the last five years
Single women build less home equity overtime than single men, according to a new Redfin analysis of 79,517 homes in purchased in 18 of the largest metros by single women in 2012. On those home purchases, women earned a median $171,313 of home equity over five years compared to $186,403 of equity earned by men — a difference of $15,090 or 8.1 percent. …
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