WHAT WOMEN WANT BY TAMI BONNELL, CO-CHAIR
“Instead of working just as hard for less money, many women want work-life balance and choices. They want something… more.” In an article for Forbes on the continuing gender wage disparity, Senior Contributor, Tom Spiggle, wrote, “Over the past few decades, this gender pay gap has been narrowing. But it’s a slow process and at the current rate, the gender pay gap will remain until 2059.” 2059?! That’s all kinds of wrong. Through the COVID-19 pandemic we’ve seen office culture upended, supply chains disrupted, and huge shifts in the job market. Still, women earn 82 cents on the dollar to men. 82%. Why hasn’t this changed? People are walking away from their corporate and service sector jobs in droves, and an awful lot more are wishing they could. Although it might have seemed attractive at first to be able to satellite from home during the initial phase of the pandemic, this didn’t necessarily translate into more flexibility for women because many were sitting in front of their computer all day or trying to juggle
Volume 11 Issue 1 13
