This Pearl Meyer/NACD webinar presentation: "#Youtoo: What Boards Need to Know and Do About Gender Pay Equity" identifies several major factors driving the focus on gender pay issues; explains the differences between gender pay gap and gender pay equity; addresses factors contributing to the gender pay gap, and pay equity legislation compliance tactics; and explains at a high level why companies should care about this issue and what they should do.
See also this WSJ article: "Pay Gap? For Women at Startups, the Equity Gap is Worse"; our prior reports: "Employees, Companies Focused on Gender Pay Equity," "NYC Comptroller Announces Progress on Gender Pay Gap Initiative," "Gender Pay Gap Disclosure," "Be Proactive on Gender Pay Gap Issues," "Companies Commit to Gender Pay Gap Disclosure, Triggering Proposal Withdrawals," and "Activist Investor Arjuna Continues to Target Gender Pay Equity"; and additional Gender & Other Pay Gap/Parity resources on our Executive/Employee Pay page. This post first appeared in last week's Society Alert!