Is Your Office Layout Causing Gender Bias?

Most office layouts are set up to favor men's work styles.

When it comes to climbing the corporate ladder, women get less access to career-advancing opportunities, they're less likely to see fellow women in senior management, and they're less confident that they'll reach the top ranks, according to the Women in the Workplace 2016 study, conducted by LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company.

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When companies are in crisis, female CEOs are more likely to be blamed than male CEOs

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If a female CEO's company is in crisis, she's much more likely to be blamed for it than if a man ran the show.

That's according to a new study out from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Global Strategy Group October 26, which we first saw in the Wall Street Journal.

Gender pay gap could take 170 years to close, says World Economic Forum

Global economic disparity between men and women found to be rising, with levels now similar to during 2008 financial crisis

The authors of a new report forecasting that it could take 170 years to eradicate the disparity in pay and employment opportunities for men and women have called for urgent action to close the gender equality gap.

Women earn less than men at 'every stage of their career', study shows

Women earn less than men at 'every stage of their career', study shows 00:01, 14 Oct 2016 Research by the TUC suggests that women women workers lose out by £85,000 a decade Share Get business news by email Frances O'Grady at the Liberal Democrat Conference 2016 in Brighton Women earn less than men at every stage of their career, rising to more than £8,000 a year by the time they reach their fifties, a new study reveals.

Survey: Few male board members believe diversity improves firm performance

The Washington Post Companies with the highest percentage of female directors have been shown to outperform on equity, return on sales and return on invested capital. They pay less to gobble up other firms. They have lower stock price volatility. And those with more women at the top have even been shown to have fewer governance controversies, such as bribery and fraud.