Challenging Gender Pay Inequity in the Workplace

Challenging Gender Pay Inequity in the Workplace

23mIntermediate2023-01-11

Authors

Gabriella Parente

Gabriella Parente

HR and Organizational Development Professional

Course details

Looking for strategies to combat pay inequities in the workplace? Ensuring equal pay across genders is more than attainable, but you need to start taking action if you really want to change your team. In this course, instructor Gabriella Parente gives you an overview of why gender pay equity is so business critical—not just for your organization, but for organizations all over the world.

Explore the global impact of gender pay inequity and concepts like motherhood penalty, maternal bias, unconscious bias, affinity bias, and more. Gabriella guides you through some of the most important laws that affect the gender pay gap and how they’re implemented in different parts of the world. Along the way, get a crash course in gender pay equity norms as they apply to women, men, and the LGBTQ+ community. By the end of this course, you’ll be ready to start taking real-world action, building community across differences, and closing the gender pay gap on your team.

Skills covered

Compensation and BenefitsNegotiationWorkplace EquityJob SearchingDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)Career DevelopmentHuman ResourcesProfessional DevelopmentDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

Fundamentals of Gender Pay Equity

  • Why gender pay equity is critical
  • Global impact of gender pay equity

Explaining Gender Pay Equity Issues

  • Motherhood penalty and maternal bias
  • Unconscious bias
  • Likability bias
  • Salary negotiation
  • Global laws that affect the gender pay gap
  • Gender pay equity for women, men, and LGBTQ

Taking Action on Pay Inequity

  • Pay transparency and salary history bans
  • Measuring and evaluating success
  • Best practices to close the gender pay equity gap

Conclusion

  • Next steps