Thank You Lilly Ledbetter, Equal Pay Champion, 4/14/34–10/12/24

I was so sad to learn of the death of Lilly Ledbetter, a leader of the movement for pay equity. She was moved by her own story to fight for equal pay regardless of gender first for herself, and then for all women.

The SumGloria FeldtOctober 14, 2024Lilly Ledbetter, Supreme Court, Equal payComment

Spread Your Wings: Founder + Vision = Mission For Equal Pay Day and Beyond

Perhaps it is no coincidence that her high school classmate at Niles West High School in north suburban Chicago Was Merrick Garland, the recently appointed United States Attorney General.

It seems Suzanne Lerner similarly had her sights set on bigger issues, justice and a global mission. In high school, she participated in Project Wingspread, an exchange program with students from urban and suburban high schools.

Play Fair: Why Women’s Earnings Peak and Gender Pay Gap Matter

New research from PayScale shows that women’s lifetime earnings peak at an earlier age than do men’s, and the gap never improves, setting up a lifetime of playing catch up that never pans out.

Price It Right: 5 Tips On How To Give Best Estimates On Your Work

My roof needs repair. One roofing company said the cost was in a range of several thousands of dollars and refused to be specific. Another roofer said he couldn’t possibly tell me how much it might cost until he starts working and that he would just go up there and come down after 8 hours, if that was all I could afford.

Finance/MoneyMichele WeldonApril 26, 2019Equal pay, female entrepreneurs, freelance, Michele Weldon, MoneyComment

Make Equal Pay Day Real: How You Can Close The Gender Pay Gap

It’s both good and bad news. Women still have a ways to go before they reach equal pay for equal work, but this year shows a small improvement of 1 percent over last year. Equal Pay Day on April 2 marks

Up For A Raise? Learn Latest Trends To Get Your Share This Year

It’s the end of the year, and you may be gearing up to ask for a raise because of excellent performance, salary competitiveness, or even just cost of living. The good news is 84 percent of organizations plan to give base pay increases in 2018.

ParityMichele WeldonNovember 19, 2018Equal pay, equality, gender parity, Michele Weldon, women in the workplaceComment

A Win For Women: Close the $500 Billion Pay Gap

How many Mega Millions winning lottery tickets would it take to close the gender pay gap? 313. That’s because $500 billion is the total gender pay gap each year in the United States

ParityMichele WeldonOctober 26, 2018Equal pay, equality, gender equality, Michele Weldon, pay gapComment

Get It Done: When Will Women Have True Equality in U.S.?

We get it that this is not Iceland. Iceland is No. 1 on the “World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index, which ranks 144 countries based on how close they are to achieving gender equality,” Melissa Jun Rowley writes in Forbes. The U.S. ranks 45th. “According to the Global Gender

ParityMichele WeldonAugust 21, 2018Equal pay, equality, Michele Weldon, Women's equality day, womens movementComment

63 Is Not 100: Black Women’s Equal Pay Day Aims To End Disparities

Sixty three cents on the dollar. That is what a black woman earns compared to a white man for the same work. White women earn 79 cents in the same comparison, and an Asian American woman makes 87 cents compared to the $1 a white man earns in the same position.

Fighting For Parity: Champion Boxer, MMA Fighter Offers Winning Strategies For All Women

“This is so no 12- year-old girl is sorry she’s a girl.” Heather Hardy, the World Boxing Champion International Female Super Bantamweight with a 21-0 undefeated record, and an MMA fighter, wants you to know that the lessons she shares on pay equity, persistence, winning, passion and defeat all women can use.

Leadership tools and tipsMichele WeldonJuly 9, 2018Change, Equal pay, Michele Weldon, parity, pay gap, Sports, women leadersComment

States, Cities Work To Close Gender Gap With Pay Equity And More

Equal pay for all Americans—men and women– is a little closer to reality as efforts to achieve gender parity by 2020, the mission of Take The Lead, seems within reach.

ParityMichele WeldonJanuary 17, 2017Equal pay, Michele Weldon, wage gap, women in the workplace, women leadersComment

“The Only One Who Looks Like Me”: Why We Need More Women Of Color in Leadership Roles

It isn’t news that women of color have to work harder, perform better and battle the pervasiveness of white privilege assigned to women in the workplace. But there is new research and insight into strategies to make workplaces more inclusive and create environments for success for all women.

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