When Dame Barbara Woodward was named British Ambassador to China in February 2015, she became the first woman ever to hold this position. Conscious of her status as a trailblazer and role model, Ambassador Woodward has made a special commitment to promoting gender equality since assuming office.
What is Causing the Gender Payment Gap Among Top Executives?
Will two executive-level people doing the same job with the same education background and experience be paid differently? The answer is yes. And unsurprisingly, one of the two is female. How big is the gender pay gap at the executive level? Professor Huang Rong at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, who studied a sample of over 34,000 executives from US publicly traded firms using data spanning an 18-year period, found women executives are paid 31% less than male executives. Although it can partly be explained by objective considerations such as title, experience, company size and performance, a 19% gap still exists.
Can Women Have It All?
Can women have it all? Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi famously disagreed. And this is why she is right.
The Glass Ceiling in China: Is it Getting Thinner or Thicker?
What does the prominence of successful business women, despite pressures from society and family, say about the glass ceiling in China?
Women on Corporate Boards: Ladies Last
Boards are integrating, slowly. But so far the proportion of women on corporate boards is still minuscule.
The High Cost of Discrimination
Why the cost of discrimination in terms of race, gender or sexual orientation is so high, and why prejudice makes us all poorer.
Gender Equality in the Workplace: Is China Ahead?
CKGSB Knowledge cuts through the punditry and asks three women business leaders to air their views on gender equality in the workplace and China’s ‘glass ceiling‘. International media seem to relish the topic of gender roles in China, with one side of the debate insisting women are downcast while the other side insists China is a […]
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