Workplace Buzz: Today's Headlines

A Response to the Gap Shift in Favor of Women
When I did the research for Why Men Earn More (AMACOM) in 2005, I discovered that nationwide never-married women who had never had children earned 117% of the wages of never-married men who had never had children. New York City women in their twenties are less likely to have married or had children than women in their twenties who live in suburban and rural areas. The overall pay gap with men earning more is not about discrimination; it is mostly about the division of labor once children arrive. MensNewsDaily.com

Angry Women in the Workplace Wrongly Misjudged
A man who gets angry at work may well be admired for it but a woman who shows anger in the workplace is liable to be seen as "out of control" and incompetent, according to a new study presented Friday. What's more, the finding may have implications for Hillary Clinton as she attempts to become the first female U.S. president, according to its author Victoria Brescoll, a post-doctoral scholar at Yale University. CNN.com

Female Prison Guards on the Wanted List
Not long ago, women who wanted to be corrections officers could expect to spend their entire careers in the small number of all-female institutions in this country. Laws and policies, which were upheld by a 1977 US Supreme Court decision, barred women from working as officers in male prisons. Then, in the early 1980s, as the equality movement gathered strength, the doors to prisons as a workplace for women started to open. Today, about 13 percent corrections officers in the United States are women, and most are guarding men. The Boston Globe