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Women’s and Gender Issues

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The gender pay gap doesn’t close — even at the very, very top

CNN Money: Of the 15 highest-paid executives in corporate America last year, two were women. The highest-paid man made nearly $244 million, according to an analysis by Equilar, an executive and board data provider. The top-paid …

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SPEAK UP: How female entrepreneurs can beat investors’ gender bias

Dana Kanze, co-founder of Moonit Labs in New York, analyzed six years of startup pitch competitions and found that 67 percent of the questions posed to male entrepreneurs were promotion-focused, while 66 percent of the …

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Gender parity has ‘halted,’ research says

For the first time since the World Economic Forum’s records began in 2006, the global gender gap is widening again, according to new research.

The World Economic Forum, best known for its annual gathering in …

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Gender pay gap larger among Iowa university administrators, data show

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Female administrators at Iowa’s public universities made 66 percent of what their male counterparts were paid last year — an even larger chasm than Iowa’s overall gender pay gap of 77 cents on …

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SPEAK UP: How companies can guard against fatigue about gender equality

Most of the corporate world has set a bold aspiration to achieve equality for women in the workplace, writes McKinsey’s Dominic Barton. Most say they are “very committed” to this goal, and just about all …

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Report: Gender pay gap pegged to lack of promotions

The gender pay gap in the United States is real but more complicated than is often reported, according to new research by PayScale Inc.


What contributes to the gap? Lack of career advancement tends to…
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SPEAK UP: How a group of CEOs plans to solve gender inequality

Frustrated by the incremental gains, a group of female business leaders got together in June 2015 to see if they could find a way to speed up women’s progress to the C-suite. The result of …

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ISU students can apply to study global leadership, gender equity in Sweden

Applications are being accepted from Iowa State University students interested in participating in the summer 2017 Global Leadership Study Abroad Program to Stockholm, Sweden. The 2017 trip will be the third time this opportunity has…
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ISU study: Competence matters more than gender for women running for office

The nomination of the first female presidential candidate by a major party has shattered some gender barriers, while at the same time reinforcing certain stereotypes and double standards that still exist for women, according to…
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Opinion: The nuanced design behind gender equality

BY LORI CHESSER | Partner and department chair, Davis Brown Law Firm   Despite so many improvements, gender equality in the workplace (let alone in other parts of life) often seems like a chimera: something that…
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