Gender issues

More than one-third of parents — mostly women — have yet to return to jobs they lost, largely because there’s no one to look after their kids.

During the COVID-19 outbreak, 1 in 5 U.S. workers have taken a leave of some kind.

“This is the decade of the working family,” says Cleo CEO SarahJane Sacchetti. Benefits that support mental health and special needs will be a top priority in 2021.

2020 Women on Boards set a new goal this week to achieve 50-50 representation in the boardrooms of Russell 3000 companies, up from 22.6% last year.

The company is also investing $2.5 million in programs to improve representation in the technology industry, a Pinterest spokeswoman confirmed. It admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement.

Starbucks named finance executive Mellody Hobson to lead its board as chair, making her one of the highest-profile Black directors in corporate America.

Adobe joins Citigroup, Starbucks and Mastercard in disclosing this kind of information, which measures the pay of women and men across all job classifications no matter their role in the company.

Women of all races and income groups are less likely to bargain for raises than men.

“My insights from comparing living as a man and living as a woman is that we still have a very long way to go,” said Caroline Farberger, the chief executive of a Swedish insurance company.

The percentage of workers asking for compensation for work-from-home expenses with their employers hasn’t gone up significantly since the outbreak of COVID-19.