Gender Equality

The disparity in pay between men and women has been discussed for years. In a USA Today Op-Ed piece, the debate on why women don't fare as well as men on the pay scale continued. One view is that career choices and business ventures are bigger factors than gender bias:

The fact is, women's career choices have more to do with the pay difference than does discrimination Another little-noticed part of the pay gap is that women are more reluctant than men to convert skills into business ventures.

Pay gaps are widening for college-educated women according to a study of Northwestern MBAs:

According to Paul Martorana, assistant professor of management at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, the mere presence of a career mentor does not consistently help women break through the glass ceiling when it comes to achieving pay equity and attaining executive roles. In their study, “The Persistent Gender Gap Among Protégés,” Martorana and his colleagues, Jeanne Brett of Northwestern U