Today is International Women’s Day. This year the focus is gender pay parity. Obviously this is a very important cause and one that we truly believe in at The Second Shift. While our main focus is on jobs and creating flexibility in the workforce to accommodate the needs of working women, we stand behing anything that fights barriers to the success of all women.
Here is a scary stat:
The World Economic Forum predicted in 2014 that it would take until 2095 to achieve global gender parity. Then one year later in 2015, they estimated that a slowdown in the already glacial pace of progress meant the gender gap wouldn’t close entirely until 2133.
What can you do? Stand up and take the #PledgeForParity.
“Everyone – men and women – can pledge to take a concrete step to help achieve gender parity more quickly – whether to help women and girls achieve their ambitions, call for gender-balanced leadership, respect and value difference, develop more inclusive and flexible cultures or root out workplace bias. Each of us can be a leader within our own spheres of influence and commit to take pragmatic action to accelerate gender parity.”