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New Film Highlights The Work Needed To Overcome The Class Pay Gap

The Horizons Tracker

In the hit HBO/BBC drama Industry , aside from the general debauchery of the characters, one thing that’s noticeable is the upper-class backgrounds of the leads. Only Harry heralds from a working-class background, and he visibly struggles to fit in in a world in which the rest of the cast seems to know precisely how to speak and act.

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Being Working Class In “Elite” Professions

The Horizons Tracker

At the back end of last year, I wrote about the “class gap” that exists in many professions. Indeed, so pronounced is this gap that the Social Mobility Foundation mark November 14, as this is the effective date at which working-class employees stop earning compared to their peers.

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Exposure To Different Careers Can Help Overcome The Skills Gap

The Horizons Tracker

When we start out in our career we’re often placed in the perverse situation of expecting to know exactly what we want to do for the next 40/50 years while having no real experience of any career, let alone the multiple careers that might give us a realistic ability to appraise which one suits us best.

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Turning on the talent tap

Chartered Management Institute

This came into rapid focus for us at BJSS, a world-class business technology consultancy, when the rapid growth of a new business unit left our junior engineers requiring additional support and advice around their training and progression opportunities.

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Women win class action status to sue Google over pay disparity

HR Digest

Four female ex-employees of Google have won a class-action status to pursue a gender disparity lawsuit against the company on behalf of nearly 11,000 women. Female engineers at both Twitter Inc and Microsoft Corp were unable to bring about a class-action lawsuit against the companies for gender bias.

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Changing Gender Stereotypes In Children

The Horizons Tracker

Research from the University of Houston shows that children as young as 6 also tend to develop ideas that girls are less keen on subjects such as engineering and computer science than boys are. They hypothesized that the characters in children’s books can influence how young people think about what men and women can and cannot do.

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The Role Overconfidence Plays In Landing Top Jobs

The Horizons Tracker

I’ve written previously about how people from upper-class backgrounds tend to have an inflated sense of self-confidence, which plays a significant role in their landing top jobs. Other factors Beyond industry, other factors also contribute to career gender disparities. The subject studied was also found to be important.