Summary. Research has found that 73% of all employees have some type of current caregiving responsibility. However, because the majority of employers don’t track caregiving status, they don’t offer the supportive infrastructure — such as the right benefits and policies — to...
Technology continues to fuel America’s fourth industrial revolution, and with that, data analytics have fundamentally changed how business leaders manage people. Never in history have companies had so much information to shape decision-making.
But as much as corporate America relies on real-time insights, there’s an important data segment missing that if captured, will ensure the U.S. shrinks its massive gaps in gender equity — data on working families.
The White House recently acknowledged this gap. One of President Biden’s first executive orders on his inauguration day was to establish an Interagency Working Group on Equitable Data. And in its October 2021 National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality, the administration pledged to “include data collection on factors such as pregnancy and parenting status to identify barriers in education, the workforce, and in other sectors.”
The data we do have proves motherhood bias in corporate America is the strongest and most prevalent form of gender bias in our economy — a self-inflicting blocker to becoming a global talent competitor. Sociologist Shelley Correll’s groundbreaking 2007 study found that women jobseekers with kids were rated as “...
Elizabeth Holmes spent some of her last days out of prison with a film crew. She was trying, it seems, to clear her name. "You really feel you did nothing wrong?" Nathan Fielder, who co-directed th...