Salary-negotiation classes designed to close pay gap in NYC

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The information includes the compensation and hours worked by the median employee and will be broken down by race, ethnicity and gender. [The Wall Street Journal (tiered subscription model)]( (8/19) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Women and Innovation in the Workforce [] [Salary-negotiation classes designed to close pay gap in NYC]( New York City will offer two-hour negotiation workshops in the fall to help women push for higher salaries. The training effort "is a way to work more deliberately to close the pay gap," said Kim Churches of the American Association of University Women, which is running the program in partnership with the New York City Economic Development Corporation. [Bloomberg (tiered subscription model)]( (8/19) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [Report: Women underrepresented on boards of new public companies]( Female directors are scarce at newly public companies, and half of the 100 companies that went public from 2014 to 2017 had no female board members. "What we also found is that over time they begin to diversity their boards, but it takes four years," said Mali Gero, co-founder and senior adviser of 2020 Women on Boards. [BNN Bloomberg (Canada)]( (8/14) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [] When the senior leaders of an organization can't or won't delegate, the culture suffers. 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