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Boston aims to be first city to erase the gender wage gap - The Boston Globe

Boston has the best-educated women of any major US city, and now Mayor Thomas M. Menino is trying to make it a better place for them to earn a living.

The goal: to make Boston the first city to eliminate the wage gap between men and women. Menino plans to announce this initiative Thursday, when he rolls out a compact signed by 38 employers that have committed to ending pay disparities.

The mayor’s interest in the issue is personal. He has four granddaughters, ages 12 to 15.

“I’m thinking about what kind of city I want for them, and for their daughters, too,” Menino said.

Menino wants to have 50 companies sign the compact by year'€™s end. Nationally, women earn 77 cents for every dollar men make. In Boston, it’s 83 cents to the dollar and a difference of almost $10,000 a year, or about $400,000 over a career, according to a report by the newly formed Women'€™s Workforce Council. 

Next step: let’s get the entire country to end this wage gap. 

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Oct 31, 2013
"Over a lifetime of work, a woman with a bachelor’s degree will earn a third less (some $700,000) than a man with the same degree. This pattern holds in nearly all fields of endeavor."
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The Daily Beast 

Today women make up half of the educated workforce and are earning advanced degrees in unprecedented numbers. But as a result of new barriers and old biases, they aren’t getting to the top at the rate we would expect. 

The new soft war on women: stalling on the career ladder (The Daily Beast) 

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Oct 18, 2013
New Census Data Reveals the Wage Gap has Changed Little Over the Last Decade “ … According to the new survey data, women with full-time, year-round jobs are paid just 77 cents for every dollar paid to men who hold full-time, year-round jobs… African...

New Census Data Reveals the Wage Gap has Changed Little Over the Last Decade

… According to the new survey data, women with full-time, year-round jobs are paid just 77 cents for every dollar paid to men who hold full-time, year-round jobs… African American women are paid 69 cents for every dollar paid to all men, and 64 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men. Latinas are paid just 58 cents for every dollar paid to all men, and a mere 54 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men.“ 

(Illustration by Emily Nemens for LeanIn.Org)

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Sep 18, 2013
Best-Paid Women in S&P 500 Settle for Less Remuneration

bloomberg.com

Best-Paid Women in S&P 500 Settle for Less Remuneration

Last year, of the five best-paid executives at each of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index companies, 198 were women, or 8 percent of the total. Those high-achievers on average earned $5.3 million, 18 percent less than men, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

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Aug 19, 2013
“This same social pattern influences salary expectations. A 2011 survey showed that long before they even hit the workforce, teenage girls expect lower starting pay than teenage boys. And this trend continues throughout college where a 2010 study...

“This same social pattern influences salary expectations. A 2011 survey showed that long before they even hit the workforce, teenage girls expect lower starting pay than teenage boys. And this trend continues throughout college where a 2010 study revealed that women’s expected peak-pay expectations were 33 percent lower than men’s.”

- Sheryl Sandberg on the gender wage gap

Read Gender Bias and the Fight for Equal Pay on LeanIn.Org

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Jul 19, 2013

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