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The Top Five Companies Leading on Paid Parental Leave in 2022 — JUST Capital
This year, Women’s History Month also coincides with another milestone: the two-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over that time, the impact of the pandemic on women’s labor participation and career trajectories has been stark. Women have yet to recoup pre-pandemic employment rates, and are seeing declines in workforce participation as of late, while men inch closer to pre-COVID numbers.
Just 23% of the Largest U.S. Companies Analyze Their Gender Pay Gaps — JUST Capital
Last week marked International Women’s Day and, for many companies, a reminder of the importance of equal pay in advancing gender equity. As organizations sent out messages uplifting women in the workplace, a U.K.-based Twitter bot shared (using public government data) the gap between women’s and men’s earnings at these employers, noting how rhetoric doesn’t always match action in this space.
Workforce Diversity Data Disclosure
Wednesday, March 9, 2022 Print Tweet Kavya Vaghul is Senior Director of Research and Aleksandra Radeva and Kim Ira are Research Analysts at JUST Capital. This post is based on their JUST Capital memorandum. Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes Politics and Gender in the Executive Suite by Alma Cohen, Moshe Hazan, and David Weiss (discussed on the Forum here), and Duty and Diversity by Chris Brummer and Leo E. Strine, Jr. (discussed on the Forum here).
5 of America’s Largest Public Companies Leading the Way for Women in the Workplace — JUST Capital
One-third of Etsy engineers are women, which is around double the industry average. (Etsy) Equal Pay Day this year fell on Wednesday, March 24, meaning that it would have taken until then for the average American woman to make what the average American man did the previous year. For Black, Native American, and Latina women, those dates stretch into August, September, and October, respectively.
Equal Pay Day 2021 — JUST Capital
by Kim Ira, Amanda Keating, Aleksandra Radeva, Molly Stutzman, Kavya Vaghul March 24, 2021 Categories Diversity & Inclusion Equal Pay Workers This year, March 24 marks Equal Pay Day for women in the United States – a date that signifies how far into 2021 women have had to work to earn what men did in 2020 alone.
A Corporate Guide to Dependent Care — JUST Capital
by Liz Kneebone, Amanda Keating, Kim Ira February 22, 2021 Categories AARP Benefits & Work-Life Balance Coronavirus Workers Even before roughly 40% of Americans began working from home to prevent the spread of COVID-19, millions of Americans were juggling the demands of work and caregiving, with more and more caregivers struggling to coordinate care.
A Corporate Guide to Paid Sick Leave — JUST Capital
by Kavya Vaghul, Liz Kneebone, Amanda Keating, Kim Ira February 22, 2021 Categories AARP Benefits & WorkLife Balance Coronavirus Paid Leave Workers For years, there have been mounting calls from researchers, advocates, policy makers, and workers to increase Americans’ access to a range of paid leave benefits in the absence of government action. The COVID-19 health crisis has put a spotlight on these critical issues.
As Parents Struggle With Back to School During COVID, Companies Can Step Up — JUST Capital
Almost three quarters of the largest public school districts in America opened this year as remote learning only. (kawee/Adobe Images) A child care crisis was brewing long before COVID-19 struck the United States earlier this year. Before the pandemic, parents across the country were already faced with a child care market riddled with issues of availability, accessibility, and quality, and priced at an exorbitant cost.
What Does Representation Look Like at 17 of America’s Largest Employers? — JUST Capital
Another week of nationwide, even global, protests for racial equity – spurred by the police killing of Black and Brown men and women including Elijah McClain, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks – has propelled commitments to antiracist action among institutions across the country. This moment of systems upheaval has opened the eyes of many Americans to issues of inequity and violence that are not new, but are being held under a new microscope.
Breaking the Silence on Racial Injustice Is the First Step. The Next Is Disclosing Workforce Demographics. — JUST Capital
by Yusuf George, Kim Ira, Liz Kneebone, Kavya Vaghul June 18, 2020 Categories Coronavirus Diversity & Inclusion Workers The times we’re in are heavy. The national response to the police killing of George Floyd continues to grow, protests against police brutality and systemic racism are being held in cities across the globe, and demands for justice are emerging from all corners of society.
Backup Dependent Care During COVID-19 — JUST Capital
Data from JUST Capital’s 2020 Rankings shows that 22% of America’s 300 largest employers disclose having a general backup dependent care policy. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, some companies announced that they were providing additional backup care or paid time off benefits to help working families cope with shifts in their care arrangements.
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