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		<title>Why We Need the Paycheck Fairness Act</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/06/why-we-need-the-paycheck-fairness-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, at my second job post-college, my friend and coworker asked me to share my salary. I said no, but she persisted. We were both about to have salary reviews and she argued we had no way to benchmark our raises if we had no idea what others in the firm were getting paid. It made sense, so we snuck into the stairwell of our office building to swap data in secrecy &#8211;we were under the impression we could be fired for sharing our pay. It turns out she was paid $1000 more annually than me. So while in reality our salaries were practically the same, at the time it seemed like a big deal. She gloated. I pouted. And I vowed never to share salary information again – nothing good could come from it. Not true. A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) titled, “Pay Secrecy and Wage Discrimination,” discusses how pay transparency might reduce the gender wage gap. Today, women earn, on average, 23 percent less than men. And 40 percent of pay inequity can be attributed to pay discrimination.* But with approximately half of all workers in the United States contractually forbidden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for Walmart v. Dukes</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/06/waiting-for-walmart-v-dukes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While we wait for a Supreme Court decision on the Walmart v. Dukes class action suit, here are some other important court cases that impact working women. The Missouri Court of Appeals is allowing Francine Katz, who was the highest ranking woman at Anheuser-Busch, to continue her gender discrimination suit against the brewer. Anheuser-Busch wanted the matter to be dealt with in arbitration. Katz, the former vice president of communications and consumer affairs for the company, has accused Anheuser-Busch of a frat-like, locker-room atmosphere and of paying her less than her male peers. Katz was paid 50 percent less than her male predecessor and learned that every male member of the company&#8217;s strategy committe was classified as a Tier I officer, but both women on the committee were Tier II officers. Several months ago, employees at Bayer Pharmaceutical filed a discrimination case against the company for unfair policies around &#8220;pay, promotions and pregnancy leave&#8221; and for creating a hostile work environment. The suit was originally filed by six female employees and then expanded to include all female sales representatives and women in the Bayer Healthcare Consumer Care unit. The women say Bayer ignored their complaints. One incident cited in the suit is garnering media [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Impact of Women on the GDP</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/05/the-impact-of-women-on-the-gdp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 17:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report from McKinsey&#38; Company titled, &#8220;Unlocking the full potential of women in the U.S. economy,” delivers little we didn’t already know about why women aren’t advancing to the tops of organizations but it offers great analysis on why we should care. The global management consulting firm surveyed 2,500 men and women and interviewed 30 chief diversity officers and experts about why  highly capable and motivated women reject top positions in organizations and either pursue jobs outside corporations or leave corporate America altogether.  A key objective of the report, however, was to understand how women contribute to the U.S. economy. The lack of women at the top isn’t a recruitment problem. It’s a retention problem. There is a healthy pipeline of talented and ambitious women. Last year 50 percent of all undergraduate degrees in the U.S. went to women, however only 50 percent of the college educated workforce was made up of women. And companies are good at recruiting women, according to the report. Parental leave, flex schedules, part-time options all make work more appealing for women. But what’s happening is women are dropping off at each rung on the corporate ladder. According to Sylvia Hewlett, from the Center [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closing the Gender Leadership Gap</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/04/closing-the-gender-leadership-gap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of women in the senior ranks of companies worldwide is decreasing, not increasing as one might expect. According to a report from consulting firm Grant Thornton International, the number of women in senior management positions globally has gone from 24 percent in 2004 to 20 percent in 2009. What gives? Well, change is slow. Very slow, sometimes. In fact, here in the U.S., in ten years, the percentage of female corporate officers in Fortune 500 companies grew only 2 percent, to 14 percent total. The percentage of female board directors grew just four percent, to 16 percent. And the percentage of women who are among the top earners, increased from 12 percent to 14 percent. (Source: Catalyst) A new report from the Center for Gender in Organizations (CGO) at the Simmons School of Management, &#8220;Closing the Women’s Leadership Gap:Who Can Help?,&#8221; looks at the factors contributing to the gap and at what can be done to shrink it. The CGO surveyed more than 300 women at the 2010 Simmons Leadership Conference and found that more than 90 percent of the respondents report experiencing &#8220;second generation,&#8221; or subtle discrimination at work. According to the press release, announcing the report&#8217;s availability, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Equal Pay Day, Let&#8217;s Try This Again</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/04/its-equal-pay-day-lets-try-this-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Equal Pay Day&#8230;.again. Equal Pay Day is the day we note women earn less than men for similar work. The day is always observed on a Tuesday in April because women would need to work a week plus two more days, or a year plus three more months, to earn what men earn. According to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, women earn, on average, just .78 cents for every dollar a man earns. And for women of color, the gap is much greater. The Equal Pay Act was signed in  1963 and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was signed in 2009. Clearly, they are not enough. If we don&#8217;t take action, the gap won&#8217;t close for thirty more years- and even then there are no guarantees. The good news today is that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand vowed to push for passage of  the Paycheck Fairness Act, along with Senator Mikulski. Gillibrand writes at the Huffington Post that the Paycheck Fairness Act, &#8220;would prohibit employers from retaliating against workers for sharing salary information with their co-workers. The legislation would also establish training groups to help women strengthen their negotiation skills, enforce equal pay laws for federal contractors, and require the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walmart Gender Discrimination Suit Update</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/04/walmart-gender-discrimination-suit-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The class action gender discrimination suit against Walmart, which had been given a green light by a federal judge and a federal appeals court, could be losing steam in the Supreme Court. Lawyers for the plaintiffs must prove Walmart had an unlawful policy that led to the discrimination. The UPI explained the challenge they face in trying to prove the class has merit, “The basic claim in the suit is that Walmart maintains a common culture &#8212; &#8220;the Walmart Way&#8221; &#8212; to ensure uniformity in its 3,400 stores … but the corporate headquarters gives local store managers unlimited discretion to decide pay and promotions &#8212; resulting in lower pay and fewer promotions for women.” Many close to the case and present in the courtroom said the justices seem divided down gender lines with Justices Sotamayor, Ginsburg and Kagan revealing support for the case in their line of questioning. The St. Petersburg Times reported, “ Ginsburg, who made her legal reputation in sex-discrimination law, said WalMart&#8217;s experience shows how &#8220;gender bias can creep&#8221; into the workplace. It isn&#8217;t &#8220;at all complicated,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Most people prefer themselves. And so a decisionmaker, all other things being equal, would prefer someone who looked like him.&#8221; The case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walmart Gender Discrimination Case: A Familiar Debate for Some Women</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/03/walmart-gender-discrimination-case-a-familiar-debate-for-some-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the Walmart gender discrimination class action lawsuit. The case was sparked ten years ago by Betty Dukes, a 60 year old store greeter, and claims women at the giant retailer are paid less than men, have fewer  opportunities for promotion than  their male coworkers, and are poorly represented at the management levels of the organization. This case has also leveled accusations of  a work environment that included team meetings at Hooters and requests for women to &#8220;doll up.&#8221; Tomorrow&#8217;s hearings will not focus on whether WalMart discriminated against women. Rather the court will evaluate whether the women who have worked at WalMart have enough in common to be considered a class. The size of the class has been reported at 1.5 million women. Walmart lawyers have argued that the women have little in common except gender. Lawyers for the plaintiffs will be challenged to demonstrate Walmart had a a common policy that was discriminatory.  They have cited decentralized and discretionary employee evaluation policies as support for a commonality finding. Walmart has argued discretionary decision-making is not inherently discriminatory. It sounds like the lawyers will engage in debates not unsimilar to the debate working women occasionally  have &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Post: Pretty Young Professionals</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/02/guest-post-pretty-young-professionals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following post was written by Amanda Pouchot, co-founder of Pretty Young Professional. I don’t care what they say about progress: women are still lagging behind.  Although women make up more than half of all college graduates and PhD candidates, they only account for 3% of Fortune 500 CEOs. Today we enter a professional world filled with opportunities that were not available to generations of women before us. It is clear that women are a lasting cornerstone of the workforce, but many of us lack the support we need to succeed. In addition to new opportunities for career advancement, today’s young women also face insurmountable pressures to look perfect, to act perfectly, to do it all.  We have been overscheduled all of our lives; excelling academically, involved in extracurricular activities and developing many necessary leadership skills.  Yet throughout our youth we were fed media that portrayed an image of the ideal woman – and let me tell you, she wasn’t the breadwinner. Faced with this conundrum, young women today are often stuck between the excellence we seek and the societal stereotypes that tell us to play nice and put others’ needs first.  What’s a young professional woman to do? We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Political Review (Slideshow)</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2010/12/2010-politics-in-pictures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a look back at just a few of the political stories we were talking about in 2010. What do you think 2011 will bring?]]></description>
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		<title>Women’s Progress in Executive Suite Flat Fifth Year in a Row</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2010/12/womens-progress-in-executive-suite-flat-fifth-year-in-a-row/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Stop me if you think that you&#8217;ve heard this one before.   Women have made no gains in the corporate boardroom or the executive suite in the last year. Nor have women increased their presence among companies&#8217; top earners, according to the 2010 Catalyst Census: Fortune 500 Women Board Directors and the 2010 Catalyst Census: Fortune 500 Women Executive Officers and Top Earners released yesterday. According to the report, Women held just 15.7 percent of board seats in 2010 rep resenting a mere 0.5 percentage points above 2009. Women held only 14.4 percent of executive officer positions, up from 13.5 percent in 2009. And as far as earning the big bucks, in 2010, women executive officers held only 7.6 percent of the top earner positions, up from 6.3 percent in 2009. And progress was flat as far as the number of companies with no women serving on the board of directors (more than 10 percent) and the number of companies with no women executive officers. This is the fifth year women&#8217;s progress has remained flat. This is what we are talking about when we refer to the glass ceiling. Women still face both obvious and subtle barriers on their [...]]]></description>
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