Clayman Institute for Gender Research’s Center for the Advancement of Women’s Leadership at Stanford University and the Stanford School of Engineering presented a Roundtable on Equal Pay, co-sponsored by Glassdoor.
Roundtable participants included Stanford professors who are subject matter experts, the CEOs of Glassdoor and GoDaddy, and an executive vice president of Salesforce. They shared their views on equal pay in tech and offered proven strategies for achieving pay equity.

Logo TV released its 2017 Top 25 Trailblazing Companies for public commitment to LGBTQ people and issue advocacy. Google and Apple ranked #4 and #5 respectively. The analysis applies 7 criteria to companies that achieved a 100% score on the Human Rights Campaign 2016 Corporate Equality Index. Both tech firms got points for having an LGBT executive and inclusive advertising. Google also scored for social media and Apple for having an LGBTQ spokesperson. 

A troubling research trend reveals that incivility at work has steadily risen since 1998 and today 62% of surveyed employees report rude treatment at work at least once a month. Research confirms the adverse impacts of workplace incivility on employees who are treated rudely:

• 47% work less
• 66% say their performance declined
• 78% report their commitment lessened
• 80% lost productive work time
• 12% left their jobs because of the rude treatment

Some solutions include not hiring toxic employees in the first place, offering training in effective communications and, above all, having leaders who show respect for employees.

A just-launched CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion alliance already features prominent Fortune 500 companies as well as tech companies Adobe, Cisco, FactSet, Hewlet Packard Enterprise, HP Inc., IBM, Qualcomm, and Symantec. The initiative focuses on, “Creating a safe workplace environment for dialog, mitigating unconscious bias, and sharing best – and worst - practices.” The CEO Pledge signatories acknowledge both “persistent inequalities” in the US and their company’s responsibilities to combat them. They also recognize that, “… diversity is good for the economy; it improves corporate performance, drives growth and enhances employee engagement.” The CEOs further pledge to construct accountability systems and report to each other on their progress.

​​AARP research found that 64% of workers experienced age discrimination, both overt and implicit if not institutional. As an example of the latter, calling the company a “young, nimble” startup informs older applicants to not bother pursuing employment there. Further, AARP’s Public Policy Institute analyzed Bureau of Labor Statistics data and found that workers aged 55+ endured 54.3 weeks of unemployment, far more than the 28.2 experienced by younger workers. Stereotypes such as older people slowing down, having less interest in new ideas and wearing out by doing their work are statistically untrue according to research by the London Business School.