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.
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.
Leta Hong Fincher on the Pursuit of Marital Property in China
Author and researcher Leta Hong Fincher on the confounding phenomenon of women forfeiting their property wealth in China.
Heart 2 Heart: Online Dating Sites in China
Online and mobile dating should be a natural fit for the country, so why are are dating sites in China not making more money? Swirling pools of onlookers and parents pore over a bulletin board in Shanghai’s bustling marriage market, nestled in People’s Park in the city’s center, occupying what was formerly a colonial racetrack. Filled with […]
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