Diversity Management, News and Updates
Even with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a new report from the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) reveals that CEO salaries continue to soar while compensation for the people working for these individuals remains stagnant. Moira Ritter of CNN Business has reported that “the average S&P…
Just one year ago, women working in the Donald Trump White House earned 69 cents for every dollar their male counterparts earned. But oh, how things have changed! Economy reporter Chabeli Carrazana of nonprofit newsroom The 19th reported on the newly released data, revealing that the wage gap for White…
College graduates in America, on the whole, owe more than $1.7 trillion in student debt, but women owe the larger percentage of that overall debt — an astounding $929 billion as of 2020. If those numbers weren’t disturbing enough, a new study from The American Association of University Women (AAUW)…
It is well known in the disability community that it is just harder for us to find jobs. The unemployment rate for people with disabilities in 2018 was 8%, more than double the rate of people without disabilities (3.7%). To ring in National Disability Employment Awareness Month, the Independence Center…
Basketball legend Lisa Leslie will be the 11th statue outside of the famous Staples Center in California and the first woman ever honored with a bust. Leslie’s statue will also be the first of a WNBA player outside of a team’s home arena. Leslie has a long and successful history…
Ariana Grande is reportedly being paid $8 million to headline Coachella this year, a monumental payday by any standard – but who decided that Grande deserved double what the iconic Beyoncé earned for her historical performance last year at the same venue? Ariana Grande, for all intents and purposes, has…
It is well known that women earn 80 cents for every dollar a man does. What plays a big factor is a phenomenon called occupational segregation. It is the belief that there are gender normal tasks assigned to men and women. For example, mowing the lawn is viewed as “men’s…
A Florida higher education official came under fire this week when he suggested that the gender pay gap and women lacking the skills to negotiate could be genetic. Ed Morton, a member of the State University System of Florida’s Board of Directors, made the comments on Tuesday during a board…
Calculating data to determine if a gender pay gap exists is too expensive of a project for Google, lawyers for the company said in court on Friday. The cost About 500 hours of work and $100,000. “This is obviously a very time-consuming and burdensome project,” said Lisa Barnett Sween, an…
A study released this month by Wells Fargo (No. 12 on the 2016 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list) found a gender wage gap, “unmanageable” student loan debt and racial disparities when it comes to wealth and salaries for millennials. The report, “Majority of Millennials Say They Won’t Ever…
