How HR Executives Can Help Close the Gender Pay Gap at the Workplace
The importance of closing the gender pay gap at your company; and how to do it.
People & Culture / Compensation
Format 30 Minute Lesson
Chapters 5
Skill Level New to Topic
Audience HR Executive
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Course Description
The gender pay gap has yet to close. Is your company prepared to help change that? In this lesson, ExecSense and expert, Deborah Ashton, Ph.D. (Vice President & Chief Diversity Officer – Novant Health), discuss why HR Executives should make even wages a top priority for their company and how their business can benefit.
In this 30-minute session, you will learn:
- Why there remains a 20% gap in wages between genders, and what you can do as an HR Executive to reduce disproportionate wages when making new hires
- An in-depth look at the obstacles and institutional practices that lead to pay disparities, and how you can create a positive workplace culture that encourages equality and talent development without bias
- The direct benefits your company stands to gain from instituting gender pay gap policies and why it may be a key to future growth
- How to ensure your company is going above and beyond its legal obligations, and what laws currently in place encourage gender pay gap reduction
- Specific case studies of like-minded HR Executives who have made reducing the gender pay gap an essential part of their companies’ ethos, how their results benefited their businesses, and what you can do to apply the same learnings
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- Deborah Ashton, Ph.D.
- Vice President & Chief Diversity Officer, Novant Health
- Expertise
- Human Resources & Organizational Culture
Appointed as Novant Health’s first Chief Diversity Officer in 2011, Dr. Deborah Ashton has implemented her Six Pillars of Diversity and Inclusion to use D&I to reinforce and strengthen the key functions of the organization and achieve business objectives.
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Dr. Ashton is a former Senior Director of Workforce Diversity at Darden Restaurants, where she launched a nationally recognized diversity-training initiative. Dr. Ashton headed diversity at Harley-Davidson, Medtronic and Argonne National Laboratory. She also is the former Chief of Test Construction and Validation for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Dr. Ashton earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Clarke College in Iowa. She earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and public practice from Harvard University and completed a postdoctoral internship at Harvard Medical School. She is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in conscious and unconscious bias in the workplace.
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