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What CEOs Can Do To Close The Wage Gap
How can I tell if there is a wage gap between female and male employees at my company and what can I do about it?Here are three strategies: Using a very simple methodology developed by the Center for Women In Government, you can assess the wage gap and occupational segregation at your company. Read More Through a pay equity initiative, the state of Minnesota has reduced its wage gap. In 2002, women state employees made 97 cents for every man’s dollar. Read more about how they did it and how your company can replicate this methodology.The WAGE Project has identified professionals who are experienced in analyzing sex-based disparaties in the workplace and designing and implementing gender-neutral job evaluation systems. Read More What practices and policies would remedy sex discrimination and prevent future inequities at my company?EEOC Report on Best Practices outlines policies that have been successful in eliminating workplace discrimination. To remedy sex discrimination at some institutions, consent decrees have been instituted. These decrees institute policies and practices that your company could use to voluntarily improve the status of women workers. Read MoreWomen faculty initiated action to end sex bias in the treatment of women faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As a result, MIT instituted changes that have improved the situation for women faculty. Read More Do we have a glass ceiling?Conduct an analysis of how many women and men your company/institution has at all levels and on your board of directors. Find out what you can do to increase the number of women in corporate decision making positions.Has your company already taken action to eliminate sex discrimination and to close the wage gap?Send The WAGE Project the non-discriminatory techniques your company developed so that other companies can adopt or adapt them such as analytic tools developed to do gender neutral wage analysis, techniques for eliminating systematic bias in recruitment, promotion, assignments, and strategies to get roughly equal numbers of women and men at all levels.Send your success story
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