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Why Companies' Attempts to Close the Gender Pay Gap Often Fail

PayAnalytics co-founders David Anderson and Margrét V. Bjarnadóttir wrote an article together with Cristian Dezso and David Gaddis Ross for Harvard Business Review about closing the gender pay gap.

Gender pay equity has become a big point of contention at many companies. Not only have politicians and other public figures spoken out against the gender pay gap, but there has also been a rising tide of high profile lawsuits targeting major employers, most notably in the U.S., with all the bad publicity and financial liability they entail.

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Whitepaper offers recommendations for transposing EU directive into national law

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How to transpose the EU pay transparency directive into national law? A team of experts, including our own Margrét Bjarnadóttir, provide guidance on how nations might balance effectiveness and ease.

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#65 - Nadja Sirotkina on Global Fair Pay Analysis at Breitling

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Three years ago, the watchmaker Breitling conducted fair pay analysis for its largest employee population, based in Switzerland. The results gave them an appetite to do more, so they began a global analysis across dozens of markets. Rewards and performance lead Nadja Sirotkina tells Henrike about the lessons the company has learned.

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Best Practices for Pay Equity External Communications and Gender Pay Gap Disclosure | Part 2

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Pay equity falls under the “S” in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social and governance (ESG). In Part 1 of this two-part blog, we talked about some best practices for talking about pay equity in CSR/ESG reports and other external communications. Now in Part 2, we’ll focus on some great real-life examples that we can learn from.

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