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North America | United States | Business

Google reviewed pay equity and learned it was underpaying men

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When Google reviewed its own pay structure recently, it yielded an unexpected result: It was underpaying more men than women for doing similar work, the company revealed in a blog postpublished Monday. The annual analysis comes as Google faces a class-action lawsuitthat alleges it denied career opportunities to women and systematically paid them less than men preforming similar work. The tech industry as a whole also is grappling with enduring criticism about a lack of diversity and dysfunctional work environments.
Africa | Ghana | Business

Ghana’s market women were once so powerful they were targeted by the military

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There are corporate-feeling malls and glossy supermarkets popping up all over the West African country. Still, more than 90 percent of people here still do their almost all their shopping at open-air markets, where the stalls are dominated by women, each running a small business. It’s an encouraging trend, but behind this bright statistic is a dark history: during Ghana’s military coups of the 1970s and 1980s, market women became the target of government terror, blamed for an economic crisis gripping the country. To understand why that could have happened, you have to first see the marke
North America | United States | Business

Havas CEO Yannick Bolloré thinks women are ‘too cautious’ in business

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Havas chief executive Yannick Bolloré has called on women to be "less cautious" in their approach to business in order to bolster the number of females acting in senior roles. The recently appointed agency boss told the audience at Advertising Week Europe in London on Monday (23 March) that the reason there is a disparity between males and females in top jobs in the industry "lies with the persons themselves". "I’m a huge believer in gender equality and it’s very important to be able to find a way to integrate more women into top management," he said. "[But] the problem lies in the
International | Business

Uber partnership with UN women’s group hits dead end

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It looks like a United Nations group devoted to women's rights won't be partnering with controversial car-hailing service Uber after all. "UN Women will not accept an offer to collaborate on job creation with Uber, so you can rest assured about that," the group's executive director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, said last week during an event at the UN's 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59), which wrapped up yesterday in New York after a two-week run. A short clip of Mlambo-Ngcuka's remark surfaced on YouTube earlier this week. In a statement sent to various news outle
Africa | Rwanda | Business

Only one woman motorcycle taxi driver in Rwanda

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Forty-year-old Claudine Nyanamajambere is the only female “moto” driver in all of Kigali – a fact that she believes works to her advantage. Although there are more women than men in Rwanda’s parliament and women are also amply represented in all levels of government, many consider Claudine to be an unofficial gender equality promoter.

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