By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
“Women’s one-word association with wealth is security,” said Linda Descano, President and COO at Women & Co., a division of Citi.
Recently, Women & Co. released the results of its national survey on women and personal finance, which measured women’s attitudes toward money and financial decision-making following the [...]

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By Nicki Gilmour, CEO and Founder of theglasshammer.com (New York City)

Part 1 of a 2 part series on “Why women should stay technical,” an introduction to our upcoming event Women in IT: Staying Technical and Getting to the Top, held in conjunction with Goldman Sachs and Accenture.
Recently, the New York Times reported on the lack [...]

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By Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles)
The wage gap between men and women is still running strong – 23 cents strong, according last year’s U.S. Census Bureau report. In fact, a new study conducted by Forbes leads women to believe that a little change in their actions could assist them in improving their chances at better pay. [...]

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By Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles)
A few weeks ago, The Glass Hammer shed some light on the Paycheck Fairness Act by speaking to the AAUW’s passionate Director of Public Policy and Government Relations, Lisa Maatz, as well as labor and employment law attorney, Counsel Dena Calo of Genova, Burns & Vernoia. The Paycheck Fairness Act would [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
According to a recent article in The Glass Hammer, and numerous recent studies, women make, on average, about 76 – 80 cents on the dollar compared to men. But what does this mean over the course of a lifetime?
Luckily, Women are Getting Even (WAGE), a nonprofit organization based in [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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