Gender discrimination

The Top Women in Benefit Advising class of 2020 proffer their best advice to counter both conscious and unconscious bias in the workplace.

Most job searchers already know: the more they’ve been paid in the past, the more they can demand in the future. This method can create a disconnect between pay and productivity.

Marilyn Booker seeks a judgment that bars the bank from discriminating against her and other Black women and asks for unspecified damages.

What’s the racial makeup in your board of directors? Who gets promoted? The social display of empathy is a good first step, but it’s time for corporations to do more.

The disparity raises the prospect that women’s gains in the labor market and efforts to reduce the gender pay gap are being undermined by the lockdown.

Before the pandemic struck, women already faced a century-long wait to reach parity with men, a daunting prospect that now risks becoming further out of reach if the economic disparities unleashed by the crisis are ignored.

Experts suggest electronic paper trails and consistent HR policies to stay out of court.

“New Jersey represents the last vestiges of the old-boy machine politics," says former state Sen. Barbara Buono.

“You need laws and structures that lead the way to gender equality,” says Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin at the World Economic Forum.

With its appointment of Martine Lellis, one of the largest and most-acquisitive RIAs ups its leadership ranks to almost 40% women.