The Glassdoor findings show a potential worsening of the gender pay gap through layoffs.
Women earned about $0.82 per dollar earned by men in 2025, a recent analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data by resume builder MyPerfectResume found. Despite women’s median weekly earnings doubling in the past 25 years, the uncontrolled gap between what men and women earned grew more than 60% to $12,324 annually by 2025, the report showed.
Payscale found in a March report that the gender pay gap exists at every education level and “widens significantly” as women get older and advance in their careers.
That widening gap can partially be attributed to male employees’ likelihood to use external job opportunities to negotiate greater earnings, according to a study of Swedish workers published by the Rockwool Foundation Berlin Institute for the Economy and Future of Work. RFBerlin found that in jobs where bargaining is limited, the pay gap caused by job opportunities disappeared.
Yet 30% of employed women say they’ve faced discrimination when trying to earn equal wages because of their gender, compared to only 10% of employed men who said the same, according to the results of a recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released in March. READ MORE
by Ginger Christ
Source: hrdive.com
Celebrate the big wins. They are well-deserved products of your efforts. Accept the laurel, frame it, show it off. Celebrating the big win doesn’t translate into complacency. It implies acknowledgment. The idea behind the resting-on-laurels effect is not to minimize your accomplishments. It is to use them as springboards and to be mindful that they don’t become traps.
The other day someone mentioned a friend who had recently retired. Then they paused. “Well… semi-retired,” they said. “He doesn’t really like calling himself retired.” I understood immediately. Not because I know the man. I don’t. But because I recognised what he was trying to protect. His relevance.
Organizations have long assumed that the individuals who rise to leadership roles are those best equipped to lead. Yet decades of research in personality psychology and organizational behavior suggest a more troubling reality: the characteristics that help individuals emerge as leaders are not the same characteristics that make them effective once they are in power.
