Category: News
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Introducing Women’s Homeownership Series: Rachel
The NAWRB Women’s Homeownership Series is a series of fictional articles profiling the obstacles women encounter in their personal and professional lives. From homeownership to career advancement, these articles are designed to shed light on the unprecedented difficulties women face when attempting to create better lives.
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Women in Finance Are Reprimanded More Harshly than Men
A new report by business professors from the University of Chicago, Stanford, and the University of Minnesota reveals that female financial advisors are punished more strongly than men for engaging in misconduct. Following an occurrence of misconduct, women are 20 percent more likely to lose their jobs and 30 percent less likely to secure…
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How Are You Driving Women’s Gender Equality?
Countless events highlighting people’s and companies’ commitment to women’s gender equality are taking place around the world, from trillion dollar businesses to single women rallying within their local community to bring women’s issues to the forefront. Last week, we witnessed incredible displays of collaboration and planning in the installment by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA)…
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Women Prefer to be in the Workforce
Only half of women in the world participate in the labor force, but the majority of them would prefer to, according to a new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Gallup Inc. Findings reveal that 58 percent of women not in the workforce would like to be working, and 41 percent of women…
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The Number of Women in Power is Growing, But it Remains Small
Even though women in power around the world remain part of a small collective—and rarely remain in power for long periods of time—they are growing, according to the Pew Research Center (PRC). There are currently 15 women world leaders in office, eight of whom are their country’s first woman in power.
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Investment Firm Installs Statue of Girl Facing Wall Street’s Charging Bull
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA)—the world’s third-largest asset manager—has installed a bronze statue of a girl defiantly facing Wall Street’s famous charging bull in downtown Manhattan.
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Happy International Women’s Day!
March 8 marks the 108th anniversary of International Women’s Day (IWD), “a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.” As part of Women’s History Month—which stems from a group of New York women factory workers protesting for better working conditions on this day in 1857—March 8 was first recognized…
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Women in the Labor Force Around the World
How do women in the labor force differ around the world? Recent Pew Research Center analysis of 2010-2016 labor force statistics from 114 nations reveals that women comprise at least 40 percent of the workforce in over 80 countries.
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Intel Achieves Pay Parity for Women and Minorities
Tech giant Intel recently released its Diversity & Inclusion Annual Report 2016, detailing the state of women and minorities within the company. While the report makes clear that the overall increase of underrepresented minorities in Intel’s U.S. workforce was small—reaching 12.5 percent in 2016, up from 12.3 percent in 2014—the company achieved 100 percent…
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What’s the Real Reason Women Get Paid Less than Men?
Despite the amazing progress of the past century, women continue to struggle with a lack of pay parity. Currently, women working full-time earn just 80 cents for every dollar a man earns—that’s $10,470 less annually—and the elimination of the gender pay gap has largely stalled over the past 15 years. A recent Wells Fargo…