On the Scene for International Women's Day with Shannon LaNier.

On The Scene for International Women’s Day

It is a beautiful space here at Luminary in New York City where it is a women founded and funded workspaces, a coworking space so they can share tables, they can access office space and it's a great opportunity for women to network together. So let's tell you a little bit more about the theme of this year. It's about X Equity, equal equity. That's what they really want people to focus on for International Women's Day this year. And companies like Luminary are focused on exactly that when it comes to women at work. So here's an explanation from International Women's Day on why they're focused on on equity as opposed to equality. Take a look, equality is much more about creating the same opportunities. It's about creating the same access, information resources and the like. But equity takes it a step further. Equity acknowledges that everyone does not have the same starting point by virtue of differences in economic starting points. So again, that theme is an embrace equity. So let's take a look at the numbers, women earn 82% of what men earn every year. That's a huge increase since 1979 when it was 62%. But those numbers have been flat since 2004. The COVID 19 pandemic was harder on women's jobs than it was on men's jobs. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and services at McKenzie, usually recessions hit men harder than women. But one in four women considered leaving the workforce or working less during 2020 and 2021, the most affected groups were working mothers, women in management positions and black women. Now in a recent layoffs that have spread through the tech industry, women have been disproportionately affected women earn 65% more. They were actually 65% more likely to be laid off during that time. And 27% of tech jobs were held by women and 73 were held by men. On average women in tech are offered a salary of 3% less than men for the same, same job at the same company with the same experience. Now compared to the rest of the economy, tech employees, employees, fewer black Latin X and women workers. So if you want your workplace to be more equitable, here's one tip from the CEO of what cement on how you can help promote equity in the workplace. Whether you are a woman or an ally like me. Did you know that women are interrupted at a rate of three times that of men? So the next time that you are interrupted, stop them, say, hey, Josh give me a moment, I'll come right back to you as soon as I'm done. And if you're an ally and you witness this, stop your male colleague, Josh and say, hey Josh, you know what, let's give Yuko a chance to finish and then we'll come back to you. And if you're a manager, make sure that you are privately pulling aside those serial offenders and have a conversation with them. Now, they also suggest being an ally using inclusive languages and make sure you promote fairly, very simple. Hopefully, people can continue to do that.