This was the cover of Newsweek on March 16, 1970—the same day 46 female staffers sued the company for gender discrimination. Funny that the woman is a) naked and b) breaking out of the female gender symbol, but still great. The 1970 issue—and what came after it—is the inspiration for this blog.
The good news is that in Europe, the executive European Commission has laid out plans to address the pay gap as part of its Europe 2020 strategy, a 10-year plan to boost economic growth and create jobs. Women in EU earn, on average, 82 percent what men do.
A recent London Business School study shows that when work teams are split 50-50 between men and women, productivity goes up. Gender balance, the research posits, counters groupthink — the tendency of homogenous groups to staunchly defend wrong-headed ideas because everyone in the group thinks the same way.
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