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Pay Data Reporting Goes into Effect January 2021

By Robert Sheen | December 29, 2020

3 minute read Following the signing of California Senate Bill 973 (“SB 973”) into law on September 30, 2020, mandatory CA pay data reporting will take effect on January 1, 2021. The new requirements under SB 973 (California’s Pay Data Reporting) are positioned to have far-reaching implications for pay equity and pay data reporting both in…

Under COVID-19, Progress Toward Gender Equality in the Workplace is at Risk

By Nicholas Starkman | June 9, 2020

New data suggest that the economic downturn associated with COVID-19 has disproportionately affected women. A pair of articles in the Economist and Bloomberg News discuss how this slowdown is different from others in its gendered impact, particularly along the dimensions of 1) job loss and 2) distribution of household and childrearing responsibilities. Together, they paint…