SOC 371 Chapter 10: Week 10 Readings
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The securities and exchange commission took a shot at it last week, approving a rule that would require companies to disclose their c. e. o. pay gap comparing how much chief executive officers take home compared with ordinary employees. But here"s a better one: require companies to publish their gender pay gap. Calling out top executives for making too much money will at most embarrass a few suits. But calling out companies for paying women too little will help millions and perhaps crack one of the most intractable problems of our time. It"s not that men are intentionally discriminating against women far from it. I"ve spent the past year interviewing male executives for a book about men and women in the workplace. A vast majority of them are fair-minded guys who want women to succeed. They"re absolutely certain that they don"t have a gender problem themselves; it must be some other guys who do.
