Changing employers can help narrow the gender gap in executive compensation.
The Analysis
- The authors analyzed proprietary data on executive employment from a top-five placement firm that specializes in filling senior roles.
- They also examined more than 2,000 individual career histories, publicly available on LinkedIn, and conducted interviews with 11 search firm executives.
Progress on shrinking the gender pay gap has been glacially slow. Though it has narrowed somewhat over the past 40 years, stark inequities persist. In 1980, women earned 64 cents for every dollar that men earned. By the end of the decade, that amount had increased to 74 cents, but since ...
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