Cindy Gallop, a former BBH chair, always has advice for women making their way in the ad industry. Now she's also giving advice as a chatbot. R/GA partnered with The Muse, Ladies Get Paid, Reply.ai and PayScale to launch "Ask For a Raise" on Equal Pay Day. To access the bot on Facebook Messenger, users can search @AskCindyGallop and message away.
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2017 EDITION OF THE GLOBAL GENDER GAP REPORT.
The Global Gender Gap Report benchmarks 144 countries on their progress towards gender parity across four thematic dimensions: Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment. In addition, 2017’s edition also analyses the dynamics of gender gaps across industry talent pools and occupations.
https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-gender-gap-report-2017
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The median salary for women working full-time is about 80 percent of men’s. That gap, put in other terms, means women are working for free 10 weeks a year. So, if you’re a woman ...... you started working for free 15 hours ago...
Well, that is a little blunt — there are gradients on that difference. The pay gap varies depending on the occupation, working hours, education attainment, experience, and geography.
Look at when women in varying occupations would start working for free, based on the wage gap in that field (US data).
Published 26/10/17
Read MoreThe F-Rating is applied to films by cinemas and film festivals giving moviegoers an easily identifiable label so they can choose films that fairly represent women on screen and behind the camera. Highlighting these films sends a clear message to distributors, producers and funders that women can and should have more than just a supporting role within the industry.
The F-Rating is applied to all films which are directed by women and/or written by women. If the film ALSO has significant women on screen, it receives a TRIPLE F-Rating, our gold standard. The rating allows audiences to “vote with your seat” and proactively choose to go and see F-Rated films.
Read MoreThrough the Global Gender Gap Report, the World Economic Forum quantifies the magnitude of gender disparities and tracks their progress over time, with a specific focus on the relative gaps between women and men across four key areas: health, education, economy and politics. The 2016 Report covers 144 countries. More than a decade of data has revealed that progress is still too slow for realizing the full potential of one half of humanity within our lifetimes.
Read MoreGender Pay Gap legislation (developed by the Government Equalities Office) introduced in April 2017 requires all employers of 250 or more employees to publish their gender pay gap for workers in scope as of 31 March 2017.
Read MoreThe Women’s Business Council is a government-backed, business-led council that was established in 2012 with the aim of ensuring real action to maximise women’s contribution to economic growth.
Read MoreTextio’s predictive engine is fueled by global hiring data. More than 10 million new job posts and their real-world outcomes are added every month. Textio analyzes this data to find the meaningful language patterns that cause some posts to succeed where others fail. Then it feeds that guidance back to users, creating a learning loop that gets smarter with every keystroke.
Textio offers a free scoring tool for companies : https://textio.com/
Read MoreThe Bechdel Test, sometimes called the Mo Movie Measure or Bechdel Rule is a simple test which names the following three criteria: (1) it has to have at least two women in it, who (2) who talk to each other, about (3) something besides a man. The test was popularized by Alison Bechdel's comic Dykes to Watch Out For, in a 1985 strip called The Rule. For a nice video introduction to the subject please check out The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies on feministfrequency.com.
Read MoreProject Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaboration between researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition - thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the Internet.
2 tests are specifically relevant to gender: Gender Career Test and Gender Science Test
Go to : https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
Read MoreProject Include’s mission is to give everyone a fair chance to succeed in tech. We are a non-profit that uses data and advocacy to accelerate diversity and inclusion solutions in the tech industry.
Read MoreHow gender-equal is your country? MacKinsey Global Iustitute examines gender equality across 15 indicators. (MGI Tableau based open source tool).
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