By Elizabeth Harrin (London)
If you’ve been following the release of various studies into the gender pay gap, you might be wondering what you can personally do to increase your chances of not falling into the chasm between men and women’s pay. In this difficult economic climate – although there are some small signs that things [...]
‘Money Talks’ Category
November 24th, 2009, 6:00 am
Mind the Gap: How to Increase Your Salary
September 15th, 2009, 6:00 am
The London Paper’s City Girl Weighs in on Banker Bonus Caps
by Barbara Stcherbatcheff, author of “Confessions of a City Girl” (Virgin Books)
Since I revealed my identity as The London Paper’s “City Girl” on August 3rd, I have been besieged by media requests to share my opinion on what must be the year’s hottest City-related story: whether or not to cap banker bonuses. Politicians have [...]
April 28th, 2009, 1:00 pm
Equal Pay Day, April 28th
by Liz O’Donnell (Boston)
Today is Equal Pay Day. The day, always a Tuesday in April, represents how much longer a woman must work, on average, to earn as much as a man earned the previous year. And even though President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in January, the work is not [...]
April 24th, 2009, 1:00 pm
Is Texting Good for Business?
by Liz O’Donnell (Boston)
More than one trillion text messages were carried on carriers’ networks in 2008—breaking down to more than 3.5 billion messages per day. That’s almost triple the number from 2007. Meanwhile, there was a reported 2.7 percent increase in labor productivity in the business sector from 2007 to 2008. Based on this [...]
March 20th, 2009, 6:00 am
Coffee is the New Lunch
by Liz O’Donnell (Boston)
Bryant Park says pink is the new black and Wall Street says coffee is the new lunch. The New York Times recently ran an article about Hollywood and literary types who no longer fight to pick up the check at business lunches due to the struggling economy. So The Glass Hammer asked [...]
March 18th, 2009, 1:00 pm
The Payday Puzzle
by Jane Carruthers (London)
It’s the elephant in the room. You can have equal opportunity programs, gender equality task forces, women’s action groups and all the promises of equal pay for equal work enshrined in your Human Resources manuals, but none of it matters a jot if you don’t have clarity on whether you really [...]
March 17th, 2009, 6:00 am
The Cost of Face Time
By Heather Chapman (New York City)
U.S. companies could save upwards of $260 billion dollars a year by implementing a telework (also known as “telecommuting”) policy. So says Undress for Success, an online resource site for people who work from home. Using recently released U.S. Census figures and data from several different studies, as [...]
February 5th, 2009, 1:08 pm
The Wage Gap Puzzle in the Legal Profession: Why Women Lawyers Still Earn Less Than Men & What Can Be Done About It
by Anna T. Collins, Esq. (Portland, Maine)
When President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act on January 29, 2009, critics declared the new law a pain for employers and a boon for trial lawyers. Now that it is easier for plaintiffs to file wage claims when they earn less than their counterparts, [...]
February 5th, 2009, 6:00 am
Executive Compensation: What Happened?
By Paige Churchman (New York City)
The overpaid executives have become a lightning rod for our rage. Everyone’s jumping in. The President calls them shameful. The Merrill Lynch cafeteria workers, who make about $410 a week (paid by their contractor Aramark), take to the streets with a picture of John Thain’s $87,000 area rug. The exorbitantly [...]
October 22nd, 2008, 1:00 pm
What Am I Worth?
by Paige Churchman (New York City)
The first time I asked for a raise, I got it. That was way back in the 1970s. I was a secretary in an ad agency. I faced off against my boss’s boss, asking for a lot more than the $150 a week I was making. “Our [...]
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