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Don’t Fret Over A Career Path; Take The Road Less Traveled

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By Sandra A. Miller
“The road less traveled” is an iconic idiom that has bounced around for decades, but sadly, not enough young people are taking it as they head into adulthood.
Paraphrased from a line in the Robert Frost poem, The Road Not Taken, the road less traveled conjures the image of a young person acting independently, freeing themselves from conformity and perhaps making bold choices or even ill-advised, risky ones. It sounds exciting and can lead to spectacular successes – or failures.
Most, of course, prefer the safer path, with a four-year college degree becoming almost cliché as the most secure way to go forward in life. And there are other conventional routes: getting a stable job right out of high school, a training program leading to a career, etc.
Look, college is still a great gateway to your future. It’s one I took and recommend. I teach writing in college now. But what I’m saying is, whatever you do, don’t let societal conformity or expectations, peer pressure, know-it-all professors, parental pressure, or your own fears and insecurity prevent you from taking the road – or several side roads – less traveled.
There cannot possibly be a better way to learn about yourself. Take the scenic route down the dirt path by the creek. Through the woods, over the mountains. The road less traveled. Follow your heart wherever it leads.
Give yourself a green light
Allow me to flash a blinking red light on your safe path as an absolute danger to the quality of your life, your development and potential, and not least of all, to the wealth of your memories.
From the luxury of looking into my own rear-view mirror, I can tell you that being spontaneous, courageous, and zestful can lead to extraordinary experiences that will make your life far richer than it otherwise would be.
Most of us grow up being told what to do by well-meaning parents, or at least guided in some ways. And that’s as it should be, to a degree; on the other end of the spectrum, the overbearing or helicoptering parent snuffs the freedom out of you before it has a chance to breathe once you’re out of the house. You feel obliged to a life of conformity.
But as you teeter on the threshold of your adult life, having this golden chance that will never come again, I want to tell you some things.
First of all, use your voice and be big in the world. Be big and loud and bold.
After 18 years of being told how to think and what to believe in, this is your chance to show who you are and to decide which direction you want to start in.
Don’t feel guilty. Try owning your voice to reject what doesn’t feel true and right, and then consider what you’re passionate about, what enthralls you. Go for it then; don’t wait to have time for it later.  Otherwise, that time might not come as life’s conformities start coming at you in waves – the 9 to 5 job, marriage, children – all before you took the grand opportunity to explore and discover more of yourself.
Don’t worry about choosing wrong. You can change your mind again, and then again.
Live in the moment – and live large
That’s the incredible thing you don’t realize yet: Life is more fluid than fixed. You get to jump streams, change paths until you find the one that’s singularly yours.
And while you’re looking for your path, you can also stress a little less. Getting A’s in college is commendable, sure, but grades aren’t the real stuff of life. That comes with impromptu adventures and midnight escapades, meeting new people, even messing up a little. These are some of the best years of your hopefully long life, and there’s a lot of fun to be had and things to discover – including yourself.
So, with that, you might think about leaving the library now and then and shedding the nickname “bookworm.” Cram less. Live more. Maybe even crawl into the bell tower and drink beer with your friends.
You do not want to look back with regrets. I had fun in my younger life as an adventurer, but one major event stopped me in my tracks when I was in college and really before I embarked on out-of-the-box choices and the road less traveled.
I was driving home on a dreary December afternoon in the middle of final exams, shortly after getting the call that my father had died. Our relationship had long suffered. I wondered what I could have done differently before losing him, and I would spend decades trying to heal my broken heart.
From the vantage point of midlife, people who suffered similar losses in their distant past can finally see the truth behind the pain. For me, my difficult relationship with my dad was part of my journey, and looking back now, the perpetual ache I felt to connect with him propelled me, led me around the globe to the most magical places.
It led me to Asia to teach. To Europe, where I fell in love with languages. And South America, where I stumbled onto a spiritual path.
Sometimes taking the road less traveled may create the impression you’re running away, but this is all part of your search to find yourself apart from your family. You’re beginning on the edge of adulthood as I did, a shy, 18-year-old worrier, constantly wondering if you are doing the right thing for your future. The right thing is being you, and the journey is about discovering you.
Whatever road – or roads – you take, don’t worry about wrong turns, and just keep living forwards, not backwards or sideways. You’ll find your way, in part by stumbling into your truths far down the road. Every step, every mistake, every regret and every moment of incalculable joy is essential to this journey you are on.
Sandra A. Miller (www.SandraAMiller.com), author of Trove: A Woman’s Search for Truth and Buried Treasure, teaches writing at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She previously worked in the editorial department at NAL/Penguin and later worked as a literary agent. She has written stories, articles and essays that have appeared in hundreds of regional and national publications, including Modern Bride, Glamour, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, Yankee, and The Washington Post OnParenting blog. She has facilitated workshops on treasure hunting as a spiritual experience. Miller also has created her own armchair treasure hunt with a custom-made jeweled bracelet worth $2,200 as the prize. The bracelet is hidden somewhere in New England, and she will be providing clues through the blog on her website.

 

Self-help book to assist people in their 40s in reevaluating, realigning and rebooting their lives

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Self-help book to assist people in their 40s in reevaluating, realigning and rebooting their lives

Diane Mullen steps into the publishing world with

‘43 YEAR OLD FEMALE’

 Taking inspiration from her own experiences and realizations that resulted in her life reboot, Diane Mullen writes “43 YEAR OLD FEMALE” (published by AuthorHouse), a book that serves as a foundation and inspiration to reevaluate, realign and reboot life during a person’s 40s.

Mullen’s book presents a method to rebooting lives, including tips and tools to train the brain and body using change of habit, as well as how to apply the same method to take action on your bucket list and daily life happiness.

“43 YEAR OLD FEMALE” will greatly help people who are entering midlife. “I think that when people enter their 40s, they start to look at their life with more clarity, or want to. It is a friendly wake-up call for those that feel this desire and courage to take a deeper look,” Mullen says.

Through her first published book, Mullen hopes to relay that it is important to stop long enough to truly see where a person’s life is going and determine whether it matches their inner compass. “Your 40s is a decade in life that, in many ways, opens you up to make changes that actually stick. You know yourself more authentically because you’ve experienced life more thoroughly,” she explains.

“43 YEAR OLD FEMALE”

About the Author

Diane Mullen has a master’s degree in physical therapy from Washington University in St. Louis. She has a bachelor’s degree with a minor in psychology from Purdue University. She lives in Carlsbad, California, and is the creator of The Mullen Method. Mullen is also designing small-group retreats for single, kid-free women in their 40s.

 

AuthorHouse, an Author Solutions, Inc. self-publishing imprint, is a leading provider of book publishing, marketing, and bookselling services for authors around the globe and offers the industry’s only suite of Hollywood book-to-film services. Committed to providing the highest level of customer service, AuthorHouse assigns each author personal publishing and marketing consultants who provide guidance throughout the process. Headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana, AuthorHouse celebrates over 23 years of service to authors. For more information or to publish a book visit authorhouse.com or call 1-888-519-5121.

 

In Remembrance Of Fitzgerald Redd Beaver , Gone But Never Forgotten.

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“I shall pass this way but once; therefore any good that I can do or any kindness that I may show let me do it now. For I shall not pass this way again.”
Fitzgerald Beaver – Founder THE FACTS NEWSPAPER
Photo History : Charlie James interviewing Fitzgerald Beaver at THE FACTS NEWSPAPER OFFICE on Empire Way (Martin Luther King Jr. Way) and Cherry

Forever In Our Hearts.

 

FITZGERALD REDD BEAVER (FITZ) (1922–1992)

Fitzgerald Beaver , Photo History: Friday, Aug3, 1962 News clipping photo of “From My Pen” Beavers Weekly Editorial

Fitzgerald Beaver was born January 18, 1922, in Martinsville, Virginia. He graduated from high school in Martinsville and then attended North Carolina A & T College in Greensboro, North Carolina in the late 1930s.  Beaver left college without graduating and worked as a railroad porteracross the United States. By the beginning of World War II he had arrived in the Pacific Northwest and was living in the city of Portland, Oregon.

During the war “Fitz” Beaver, as he was now known, worked briefly for the U.S. Army as a civilian employee and then was hired by the Kaiser Company in Portland as a shipyard worker. After the war he briefly resided in North Bend, Oregon where he worked at a local radio station.  Finding a career he liked, he moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue radio and public relations training.

“Eager Beaver” Fitzgerald Beaver Photo History : In 1955, Fitzgerald returned to Portland and at the age of 33 became a local radio personality known as “Eager Beaver.”

In 1955, he returned to Portland and at the age of 33 became a local radio personality known as “Eager Beaver.”  In 1961, Beaver moved to Seattle, Washington to manage radio station KZAM-FM, the first black-owned radio station in the Pacific Northwest. He stayed at the station only a few months before launching The FACTS newspaper on September 7, 1961.

The FACTS quickly became a major media presence in black Seattle. The paper’s mission stated:  “We try to pick up where the daily papers leave off” meaning the paper would focus on stories not covered by the major daily newspapers but which were of particular interest to black Seattleites.  He gave the paper a distinctive “pink” color to separate it from its competitors. By the late 1960s, Beaver authored a popular column called “Right On!” that discussed local and regional issues.

Beaver was an eclectic personality who often clashed with other black journalists over news related to African Americans such as coverage of the race riots in Seattle and across the nation in the late 1960s.  His FACTS newspaper also became a community icon.  Its office, on the corner of Cherry Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way, was a familiar landmark in Seattle’s Central District with an old truck situated on top of the slanted roof and a large reader board.

Fitzgerald Beaver – Founder of THE FACTS NEWSPAPER Photo History: Mr Beaver built The FACTS to quickly became a major media presence in black Seattle. The paper’s mission stated: “We try to pick up where the daily papers leave off”

 

Despite his clashes with other black journalists Beaver also hired numerous young black journalists who went on to other newspapers.  Chris Bennett, owner and publisher of a competing African American weekly newspaper, The Medium, and Ernie Foster, publisher of The Skanner newspaper in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington, were aided by Beaver when they established their respective new

An ardent golfer, Beaver was a founding member of the predominantly African American Fir State Golf Club. He also served as president of the Boys and Girls Club in Seattle and worked with the Army, Navy and Coast Guard in minority recruiting programs in the 1970s and 1980s.

Fitzgerald “Fitz” Beaver died on
New Year’s Day, 1992 in Seattle, Washington at the age of 69. 

Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth, and their three children, Dennis, Marla, and LaVonne Beaver who are the current publishers of the newspaper.

 

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Ready to Quit Smoking? ‘Quit, Don’t Switch’ to E-Cigarettes

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Along with hitting the gym more often and starting a diet, quitting smoking tops many New Year’s resolution lists. There are more than 667,000 current smokers in Washington and nearly 52 percent of them tried to quit last year. New ads from e-cigarettes companies would have those smokers falsely believe that switching to vaping is quitting smoking. The American Lung Association is reminding Washington residents that the Food and Drug Administration has not found any e-cigarette to be safe and effective in helping smokers quit.

 

This year, the Lung Association is encouraging smokers to “Quit, Don’t Switch.” Through December 31, 2019, achieve complete smokefree freedom with a 10 percent discount to the proven-effective Freedom From Smoking® Plus program at Lung.org/quit-dont-switch.

Misinformation about e-cigarettes is rampant and their use, especially among youth has become what the U.S. Surgeon General has declared an “epidemic.” E-cigarettes are tobacco products, and the Lung Association has been a leader in helping people avoid and quit using tobacco for decades. Here are some straight facts about e-cigarettes:

  • E-cigarettes are tobacco products.  No tobacco product is safe, and that includes e-cigarettes.  Recent hospitalizations and deaths related to vaping underscore the fact that vaping is in fact harmful.
  • Switching to e-cigarettes does not mean quitting. Quitting means ending your addiction to nicotine, which can be very difficult.
  • Research shows that e-cigarettes contain dangerous metals and toxic chemicals that can cause cancer and irreversible lung disease.
  • Get the facts at Lung.org/ecigs

“One of the biggest problems with e-cigarettes is that many times people become dual users, meaning they smoke cigarettes when they can and use vaping devices at other times,” said Season Oltmann, executive director of the American Lung Association in Washington. “Using e-cigarettes is not safe:  a new study released in December found adults who currently or ever used e-cigarettes are 30 percent more likely to develop chronic lung disease, including asthma, bronchitis and emphysema.”

For years, the American Lung Association has been urging the FDA to crack down on these unproven quit smoking claims made by the e-cigarette industry. These ongoing claims have made it more confusing for smokers to know what to do when they’re ready to quit.  To speak with someone about quitting tobacco, call the American Lung Association’s Lung HelpLine at 1-800-LUNGUSA or your local quitline at 1-800-QUITNOW.

For media interested in speaking with an expert about e-cigarettes, lung health, tobacco use and tobacco policies, contact Holly Harvey at Holly.Harvey@Lung.org or 206-512-3292.

NURSES AND CAREGIVERS MOVE CLOSER TO STRIKE AT SWEDISH AS MANAGEMENT PROPOSALS MISS THE MARK

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After a full day of negotiations, nurse and caregiver members of SEIU Healthcare 1199NW believe that Swedish-Providence’s proposals thus far do not address workers’ serious patient care concerns or fix ongoing unfair labor practices. Workers are still planning to strike unless a new agreement is reached soon.

“After 9 months of negotiations Providence has failed to offer any real commitment to safe patient care and appropriate staffing levels,” said Whittney Powers, a registered nurse in the emergency department at Swedish Edmonds. “On top of refusing to make a meaningful commitment, Providence has proposed to tie our wages to patient metrics that we can’t achieve without appropriate staffing. We feel set up to fail financially and professionally, and we won’t tolerate it.”

Union members say management’s staffing proposal, which centers on a series of committee meetings, does not match the severity or urgency of their patient care concerns. Swedish-Providence has over 900 open positions across all campuses. Multiple studies show that unsafe staffing levels in hospitals can lead to lower-quality care and patient harm, including falls, infections, medication errors and increased deaths. Nurses and other healthcare workers say they are understaffed throughout the hospital, from registered nurses to environmental service technicians who clean and disinfect patients’ rooms.

“In the cancer treatment center we have twelve nurse openings. Patients can wait one to two and a half hours before seeing anyone,” said Betsy Scott, a registered nurse in the Swedish First Hill Cancer Institute. “Then they go to the treatment chair for another hour or hour and a half before the nurse is free and has the medications to administer. My patients have breast cancer. The staffing issues have gone unaddressed. It is pathetic that we have to accept two to four hour waits for our patients. This has become normal. Something has to be done and it starts with paying staff more.”

Caregivers are concerned about the lack of response from Swedish to their proposals for on-call pay and scheduling. Standby pay for on-call workers has not increased significantly in over 15 years, with on-call workers paid just $4.25 per hour. Once assigned, on-call work schedules can be erratic, and many caregivers are unable to return home between shifts to sleep. They say that instead of being given sleeping rooms, they often sleep in their cars or on unused x-ray tables.

SEIU Healthcare 1199NW members have also proposed important measures to recruit and retain top-quality staff. A key factor in Swedish’s difficulty in recruiting new caregivers is that its wages for frontline workers have not kept up with the soaring cost of living in the Seattle area. Swedish-Providence pays almost 40 percent of its employees below the salary necessary to afford the average one-bedroom apartment in the Seattle area; Swedish-Providence workers commute an average of 84 minutes per day, with over 58 percent of caregivers unable to afford to live near where they work, and over 47 percent struggling to pay their rent or mortgage.

Environmental service technicians, who are responsible for hospital infection control, have repeatedly shared grave workload concerns with management. SEIU Healthcare 1199NW members have sought to improve hospital infection control and reduce the risk of worker injury with a series of proposals to set workload limits to ensure enough time and staff to provide quality infection control, and create a plan for escalating workload and staffing concerns. Swedish management has thus far refused caregivers’ infection control proposals.

Meanwhile, caregivers say they have experienced concerning treatment from management that suggests an unwillingness to bargain in good faith. Swedish has targeted unionized caregivers for discipline when they speak out about problems in the workplace, up to and including terminations, and has withheld information related to core subjects of bargaining, such as health care costs. Fair bargaining requires the exchange of information and unfair labor practices such as these are prohibited by law.

Nurses and caregivers at Swedish-Providence voted to authorize a strike in November. They are joined in strike readiness by nurses and other healthcare workers from the Washington State Nurses Association and UFCW 21 at other Providence-owned hospitals across the state. If a strike is called, 13,000 healthcare workers statewide will deliver 10-day notices to Providence management of their intent to strike. Caregivers say their goal is to achieve a fair union contract, and they are willing to return to the bargaining table at any time.

Business owners in Washington start the Year of In THE GREEN . Revenue offers free tax workshop Jan. 8 in Seattle

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Business owners in Washington are responsible for knowing which taxes to report. To help them, the Washington State Department of Revenue (Revenue) is hosting a free workshop for new and small business owners Jan. 8, 2020 in Seattle.

Call 206-727-5300 or go online to register on Revenue’s education page.

 

Participants will learn about Washington excise taxes, reporting classifications, deductions, tax incentives, sales tax collection and record-keeping requirements. Attendees receive a workbook and helpful reference guide to Revenue’s rules and regulations. Also, attendees may earn two continuing professional education (CPE) credits. Contact the workshop instructor for details.

 

Date: Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020

Time: 1 – 4:30 p.m.

Location: Dept. of Revenue, 2101 4th Ave. SE, Suite 1400 (cross street Lenora), Seattle

 

Contact Revenue’s Rick Stedman with any questions about the workshop: 360-705-6624 or rickst@dor.wa.gov.

 

Revenue offers several ways for businesses to learn about taxes. Visit the education page to view a complete schedule and to register for upcoming workshops. Business owners can also watch a short streaming video version of the workshop online.

Revenue offers free tax workshop Jan. 16 in Kirkland

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Business owners in Washington are responsible for knowing which taxes to report. To help them, the Washington State Department of Revenue (Revenue) is hosting a free workshop for new and small business owners Jan. 16 in Kirkland.

Call 425-984-6224 or go online to register on Revenue’s education page.

Participants will learn about Washington excise taxes, reporting classifications, deductions, tax incentives, sales tax collection, and record-keeping requirements. Attendees receive a workbook and helpful reference guide to Revenue’s rules and regulations. Also, attendees may earn two continuing professional education (CPE) credits. Contact the workshop instructor for details.

 

Date: Thursday, Jan. 16

Time: 1 – 4 p.m.

Location: Kirkland Library Meeting Room, 308 Kirkland Ave., Kirkland

 

Contact Revenue’s Rick Stedman with any questions about the workshop: 360-705-6624 or rickst@dor.wa.gov.

 

Revenue offers several ways for businesses to learn about taxes. Visit the education page to view a complete schedule and to register for upcoming workshops. Business owners can also watch a short streaming video version of the workshop online.

Seattle/King County Clinic – Patient Information

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“These four days were a haven of humanity and compassion at its best. The message to me was very clear, hope in a hurting world. Thank you for that hope and easing my suffering and the suffering of so many people in need.” – Clinic Patient

Seattle/King County Clinic is a volunteer-driven, free health clinic that occurs for four days each year at Seattle Center. The Clinic welcomes anyone in the region who struggles to access and/or afford healthcare.

The next Clinic is scheduled for February 13 – 16, 2020 at Seattle Center.

Debt-Free Degree how parents and students can get through college without racking up thousands in debt

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National bestselling author, Dave Ramsey personality, YouTube sensation, speaker and financial expert Anthony ONeal has a new book called Debt-Free Degree that outlines how parents and students can get through college without racking up thousands in debt and does it in a fun way people understand.

Debt-Free Degree reached #1 on the Wall Street Journal Best Sellers for Hardcover Business List and #7 on the Nonfiction List.
As the current $1.5 trillion student loan debt crisis becomes more widespread in the media, Anthony continues to shine a light on the possibility of college without student loans.
Debt-Free Degree shows you how to cash flow your kid’s college education and what to do at each stage from middle school to high school. It also teaches readers about scholarships, grants and free community colleges. Included are topics like:
  • How to prepare for College as early as the Middle School years
  • Which classes should be taken in High School
  • When to take the SAT and/or ACT exams
  • How to do college visits the right way
  • Why it’s important to choose a major
  • Dipping into retirement funds to pay for your kid’s college
Check out Anthony on Good Morning America here!
Anthony Oneal encourages teens and young adults to make smart decisions with their lives and start off right. At age 19, ONeal was deep in debt and short on hope with no direction of where his life was headed. But after hitting rock bottom, he turned his life around and committed to helping students find and pursue their passions. https://www.anthonyoneal.com/

Since 2003, ONeal has helped hundreds of thousands of students make good decisions with their money, relationships and education to live a well-balanced life. He’s the National Best-Selling Author of Graduate Survival Guide: 5 Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make in College, and travels the country spreading his encouraging message to help teens and young adults transition into the real world. He has appeared as a guest expert on CNN, FOX News, TBN, The Dave Ramsey Show and more.

BATTLE IN SEATTLE: STARBUCKS SHOWS LEADERSHIP ON MEDIAN GENDER/RACIAL PAY EQUITY, WHILE LAGGARD MICROSOFT FIGHTS DISCLOSURE

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Microsoft Drags Feet, But Starbucks Joins Citi as 2nd Major U.S. Company to Release Data.

As Microsoft shareholders vote today on a board-opposed shareholder resolution calling for disclosure of the tech giant’s median gender pay gap data, retail giant Starbucks has acceded to shareholder requests for such information and is now providing it to the public.  The investment management firm Arjuna Capital, which has spurred nearly two dozen companies to provide gender and racial pay equity disclosure, is the sponsor of the more demanding median gender pay equity resolutions at both Microsoft and Starbucks.

Arjuna Capital Managing Partner Natasha Lamb has provided a video statement for delivery today at the Microsoft virtual meeting.  In the statement, she notes: “Disclosure of median pay is now mandated in the United Kingdom.  For Microsoft’s UK operations, our company reported a 7.9% hourly median pay gap, and a 13% bonus median pay gap.  Yet, notably, our company has notpublished median information for its global operations.”

Arjuna Capital today withdrew its shareholder resolution at Starbucks, following a productive dialogue about its median gender and racial pay equity disclosure, which is now available publicly: “Starbucks shares its median pay gaps by gender globally, and by gender and race in the US. In 2019 the median pay for women globally is 98.3% of the median for men. In the U.S., the median pay ratio is 100% for women and 100% for people of color.”

With the 2020 shareholder season now getting underway, Starbucks is following in the footsteps of Citigroup, which, in January 2019, broke ranks with other financial institutions facing median gender/racial pay equity resolutions and agreed to shareholder demands that it disclose its median pay gap data. 

Natasha Lamb, managing partner, Arjuna Capital said: “We want to salute Starbucks for its leadership as it joins ranks with Citigroup as the second U.S. company to produce the hard numbers on median gender and racial pay equity.  Starbucks has proven itself both responsive to shareholders and a leader on diversity and inclusion.   It is regrettable that Microsoft’s board has chosen to go the other way and fight the call for median gender and racial pay equity.  This sends a terrible message to employees, shareholders, the markets, and customers who deserve an honest accounting of pay gaps.

As it did in the 2019 shareholder season, Arjuna Capital intends to file during the 2020 season median gender/racial pay equity resolutions at more than a dozen tech, financial and retail giants.  Arjuna’s list of targets for such resolutions will be revealed in the first half of January 2020.

The resolution that Microsoft shareholders will vote on today over board opposition reads in part as follows: “Microsoft reports women earn 99.7 percent of the compensation received by men on a statistically adjusted equal pay basis. Yet, that statistically adjusted number alone fails to consider how discrimination affects differences in opportunity. In contrast, median pay gap disclosures address the structural bias that affects the jobs women hold, particularly when men hold most higher paying jobs. Women account for nearly 28 percent of Microsoft’s employees, but only 22 percent of leadership. Mercer finds actively managing pay equity ‘is associated with higher current female representation at the professional through executive levels and a faster trajectory to improved representation.”

 

SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM BACKGROUND

In the last five years, at least 64 companies have faced more than 100 shareholder resolutions on the gender pay gap. In 2015, Arjuna Capital launched the gender pay shareholder campaign when it filed a shareholder proposal with the technology firm eBay.

Arjuna Capital continues to lead this effort and has filed a total of 53 proposals at 23 companies in the tech, financial, and consumer sectors. Of those companies, 22 have committed to disclose and close their pay gaps on an adjusted equal pay for equal work basis, an important first step. In 2019, Arjuna requested more comprehensive reporting from the companies, and filed a new proposal with 12 companies requesting unadjusted global median gender and U.S. minority/racial pay gap data. This evolution is important because while adjusted data shows if there is equal pay for equal work, unadjusted median pay data shows if there is equal opportunity for higher-paying jobs.

 

A recent op-ed published by Lamb describes the importance of this reporting: https://qz.com/work/1549162/the-median-gender-pay-gap-arjuna-capital-wants-the-data-revealed/