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Women’s and Gender Issues

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VIDEO: ‘It’s not a gender issue; it’s an economic issue’

      In October, NEXUS Executive Women’s Alliance announced the launch of its EPIC Corporate Challenge at a luncheon for Central Iowa CEOs at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden.

The EPIC Challenge invites…
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U.S. gender pay gap is getting worse

BY LIFT IOWA STAFF | @LiftIOWA

    Ladies, mark your calendars. In the year 2133, your earnings will finally match those of your male colleagues.

It will take 118 years for the economic gap…
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Retirement savings gap a gender crisis – study says

 

Women need to save more for retirement while earning less, according to a recent study by Financial Finesse, which provides financial education programs to more than 600 organizations. 

Although both men and women face …

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California Home Depot store agrees to pay $83,400 in gender bias case

For years, women at the Home Depot store in Pomona, Calif., complained that they were funneled into cashier jobs while their male co-workers landed higher-paying sales jobs. As a federal contractor, however, the company is …

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Gender wage gap narrows by just 1 cent

MarketWatch: The good news for women workers: The gender pay gap is narrower than anytime on record. The bad news? It narrowed by a paltry one cent. Women who worked full-time last year earned 78.6 …

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SPEAK UP: How to end the ‘office housework’ gender bias

  CEO Sharon Rowlands of ReachLocal insists that tasks such as taking notes during a meeting get distributed equally among co-workers. That’s because Rowlands has seen too many women get stuck with such duties in…
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SPEAK UP: Why more women in leadership isn’t budging the gender gap

It turns out that getting from 77 cents to $1 is a bit more complex than doling out prorated paychecks for every working woman. And achieving parity is about to get even less clear. A …

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Report: Involved fathers critical to gender equality

BY LIFT IOWA STAFF | @LiftIOWA

 
 

Encouraging men to become more involved as fathers is the key to achieving gender equality, according to a landmark international study that shows women remain overwhelmingly more …