Posts by amydiehl@mstdn.social
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       Today is Equal Pay Day, a day later than last year. It is the day to which women must work to earn the same as men did working to Dec 31 last year. Women earn 81 cents for every dollar men earn. Down from 83 cents a year ago, and 84 cents the year prior.https://www.npr.org/2026/03/26/nx-s1-5758090/equal-pay-day-gender-wage-gap
       
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       Study (N=40K) finds before Mar 2020, remote work linked to better mental health for men but not women. Women suffered from flexibility stigma--had to prove their worth & work longer. After Mar 2020, remote work was more accepted & stigma diminished.https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/working-from-home-is-not-the-wellbeing-fix-we-were-promised-but-it-has-transformed-mental-health-for-professional-women
       
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       Study (N=2,689) of men (18-34) finds 95.1% reported using strategies to get a woman to have sex who they knew did not want sex & had not consented; 65% successful. Consistent physical pressure & verbal coercion common; overt force, physical restraint, pain also used. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08862605261432630
       
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       Men are 2.6x more likely than women to bike to work. Study finds where protected bike lane coverage is higher, women’s cycling rates rise significantly faster than men’s. Where coverage is limited or fragmented, women’s participation drops more sharply.https://momentummag.com/the-bike-lane-gender-gap-new-research-shows-women-ride-more-where-protected-infrastructure-exists/
       
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       Study of Swiss female teachers finds reducing hours from full to part time resulted in 35% less lifetime earnings & 43% less retirement savings. The losses far outweighed costs of childcare, even though Switzerland, like the US, has expensive childcare. https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/education-training-labor/examining-hidden-financial-costs-mothers?utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_source=hkstwitter
       
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       Study of 550K LinkedIn recommendations finds women more likely to be described as 'detailed and exact'; men as 'visionary and farsighted.' LinkedIn recommendations can affect hiring, further relegating women to administrative, non-leadership roles.https://theconversation.com/why-being-called-detail-oriented-can-stall-a-womans-career-277936
       
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       Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help."https://fortune.com/2026/05/10/identical-resume-ai-men-women-response-trust-ability/
       
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       70.5% of Starbucks baristas are women. Starbucks now requires them to perform additional emotion labor by writing a personal message on customers' cups. If not sufficiently nice, they are disciplined. They must perform friendliness but make it look spontaneous. https://qz.com/emotional-labor-starbucks-baristas-green-apron-service-051926