These remarks were given by Tiffany Bluemle, Director, Change The Story at The Vermont Women’s Fund Annual Benefit on October 4, 2017. “Two and a half years ago, in honor of its 20 anniversary, the Women’s Fund threw caution to the wind, linked arms with Vermont Works for Women …
FKG: Transforming the C-suite: Developing and Advancing Women Leaders
By: FORTUNE Knowledge Group Transforming the C-suite: Developing and Advancing Women Leaders This study examines gender parity in senior corporate leadership positions and provides six concrete recommendations for advancing gender diversity in the workplace. “It is broadly acknowledged that diversity improves financial performance and a majority of organizations have a formal gender …
4 Things You Can Do and 9 Data Points to Collect
4 Things You Can Do: 1. Prioritize gender balance on state boards and commissions, ad hoc committees and study groups. Eight states (three of them located in the Northeast) have chosen to prioritize gender balance on state boards and commissions through legislation. 2. Recognize and promote women business owners as critical players …
You’re Invited! CTS to Reveal New Report on October 19th: Women’s Business Ownership and the Vermont Economy
You’re Invited on October 19th! What: An event and keynote address that tackles the question: what is the real story for Vermont women and business ownership? Change The Story VT (CTS) will reveal findings from its third report on the status of women-owned businesses in Vermont. Policy makers, business association …
Economic Policy Institute: “Women’s work” and the gender pay gap
Source: Economic Policy Institute How discrimination, societal norms, and other forces affect women’s occupational choices—and their pay Summary What this report finds: Women are paid 79 cents for every dollar paid to men—despite the fact that over the last several decades millions more women have joined the workforce and made …
Pathways to Equity: Narrowing the Wage Gap by Improving Women’s Access to Good Middle-Skill Jobs
This report addresses women’s access to well-paid, growing, middle-skill jobs (jobs that do not require a bachelor’s degree). It documents sex segregation in middle-skill jobs, and discusses how gender integration of good jobs could both reduce skill-shortages and improve women’s economic security. The report focuses on middle-skilled “target” occupations in …
LedBetter Gender Equality Index
LedBetter is a research group that runs a database and application showcasing the number of women in leadership at the world’s top consumer brands and companies. Its mission is to empower and educate consumers, policymakers, leaders, journalists and others about the companies they support and cover, and improve the …
Closing the Gender Data Gap: How Efforts to Collect Data About Women and Girls Drive Global Economic and Social Progress
“Data powers today’s world, informing decisions about everything from business and government to health care and education. For women and girls, however, basic information about their lives — the work they do, the challenges they face, even the very fact of their existence — is lacking. The data gap often …