Harvard: Why Focusing on the Pay Gap Misses the Point
Great piece from Harvard Business Review blogs, brought to our attention by a reader (thank you!), about how we must shift the conversation about work and gender from the problem with the wage gap to solutions for corporations. Some highlights:
- Women represent one of the world’s biggest and most under-reported opportunities—a growth market twice as big as India and China combined.
- The business world has been so focused on stories like the rise of China that it has not been invited to see that, much closer to home, business could be reaping the benefits of the rise of women.
- We must stop asking “What’s wrong with women that they’re not making it to the top?” and start asking “What’s wrong with companies if they can’t retain and promote the majority of educated Americans?” (That’s us, womyn!)
(Oh, and maybe we shouldn’t be high-fiving yet. But we kinda liked this picture.)
