To solve the gender pay gap, we need to radically rethink what a job looks like
Research shows women are often doing low-paid, part-time work, with little potential for pay progression.
Laura is a Research Associate at the Global Institute for Women's Leadership where her research focuses on understanding the barriers and facilitators to women's progression in the workplace, and the factors leading to negative perceptions of female leaders. Prior to that she was a Research Associate at the Policy Institute at King's College London working across a range of areas, including improving women's representation in engineering education. Beyond the Institute she sits on the board of the Orwell Society.
Research shows women are often doing low-paid, part-time work, with little potential for pay progression.
The research analysed a representative sample of all news articles published online across a seven day period by major news outlets.
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