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>> Back to April 2018 Issue<\/a><\/div>\n

\u201cThe reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.\u201d <\/em>\u2013 Japanese Proverb<\/h3>\n

There was a time in human history when size and strength were defining characteristics of a person\u2019s value and of the jobs on which the clan\u2019s survival depended. Today, that is largely no longer the case, but cultural patterns that developed over hundreds of thousands of years are not easily undone. Gender-based inequalities in pay, prestige and power persist, and undoing the bias at the heart of them can\u2019t be done with the stroke of a pen.<\/p>\n

If it were, we might not have a pay gap now. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act<\/em> was signed into law in 2009, strengthening civil rights laws aimed at non-discrimination in hiring and pay. But since the current administration took office, there has been a significant rollback in regulations and laws that were helpful in ending gender-based discrimination. The Center for American Progress<\/em> catalogued 100 actions that it said were harmful to women and families in the first 100 days of the Trump administration.[1]<\/span> The current Cabinet is about 18.8 percent female, compared with the U.S.\u2019s 21.7 percent women\/men ratio[2]<\/span> in boards among large companies, and less gender-diverse than the past five cabinets.[3]<\/span> Would we expect progress in diversity from such a group? Possibly, but it\u2019s not likely. An article in Foreign Policy magazine<\/em> put it this way: \u201cA leadership cadre with fewer women (not to mention socially conservative men) is less likely to approve legislation or implement policies that support and empower women at home or abroad, and a society in which women are discriminated against is less likely to promote women to positions of power.\u201d[4]<\/span> But for those of us who believe in gender equality, despair is not warranted.<\/p>\n

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