article thumbnail

How to Help Women in the Workforce Build Financial Security

Best Money Moves

Learn the different ways female employees struggle with discrimination and financial security along with methods for supporting your workforce. In 2002, women made about $0.80 for each $1 their male counterparts made in 2002, according to Pew Research. Today, over 20 years later, the gender wage gap of about $0.80

article thumbnail

What Does it Mean to be Self-Employed?

Zenefits

They put in about 1 million hours a week and contribute $1 trillion to the U.S. they can be as diverse as a physician in private practice or an artist who sells paintings online. 75% are the sole or major wage-earner in their household. Who would give up a steady paycheck to go out on their own chasing gig after gig?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Closing the Gender Pay Gap: Why Women Can’t Wait Another 50 Years

Trusaic

That’s up only 2 percent since 2002. According to the NWLC , disabled women earn 67 cents an hour in comparison to men without disabilities, and 84 cents compared to their male counterparts with disabilities. Women in the workforce are unlikely to see pay equity achieved in their working lifetime. You read that right.

article thumbnail

How to Help Women Employees Build Financial Security

Best Money Moves

In 2002, women made about $0.80 for each $1 their male counterparts made in 2002, according to Pew Research. Today, over 20 years later, the gender wage gap of about $0.80 Today, over 20 years later, the gender wage gap of about $0.80 on the dollar persists. on the dollar persists.

article thumbnail

Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

Gennard and Judge (2002) state, “Employee relations is a study of the rules, regulations, and agreements by which employees are managed both as individuals and as a collective group, the priority given to the individual as opposed to the collective relationship varying from company to company depending upon the values of management.

article thumbnail

“Gender Roles in Childhood.”, with Sheila Ronning and Candice Georgiadis

Thrive Global

To look at the gender wage gap from a societal perspective with the hope of fixing the issue, we must go back to the beginning — childhood. As part of my series about “the five things we need to do to close the gender wage gap” I had the pleasure of interviewing Sheila Ronning. Gender Roles in Childhood.

article thumbnail

The Truth About Millennials’ Work Ethics

Fond

Both Baby Boomers and Gen X reminisce often about the early days of their own careers, proudly recalling the sixty, seventy, even eighty hour work weeks they once endured with an implied longing for “ the good old days.” They advocate for wage growth. When it comes to millennials’ work ethics, people love to speculate.