Katica Roy - The Economic Opportunities of Closing the Gender Equity Gap

HR Data Labs podcast

Summary:
Katica Roy is the Founder and CEO of Pipeline Equity, a software platform that helps companies increase their financial performance by identifying and closing their gender equity gaps. Her experience as a programmer, UI/UX designer, data scientist, and more has shaped her into the author, speaker, and thought leader she is today.

In this episode, Katica talks about how closing the gender equity gap would dramatically benefit all people currently in the workforce, all future workers, and the economy at large.

Chapters:

[0:00 - 4:03] Introduction

• Welcome, Katica!
• Today’s Topic: The Economic Opportunities of Closing the Gender Equity Gap

[4:04 - 13:45] What does a Gender Economist actually do?

• Looking at the economy and business data through the lens of gender
• How pay inequity affects not only the current labor force, but also future generations of workers

[13:46 - 28:24] What economic opportunities can come from closing the gender equity gap?

• The entire workforce pays for the gender equity gap, not just those suffering from it
• Rethinking benefits that were originally based on hypotheses and assumptions

[28:25 - 36:43] What would be a good starting point toward fixing the gender equity cap?

• We see lots of awareness, not a lot of execution of gender equity initiatives
• Pay inequity is a symptom, not the problem of a system where gender inequity is the default

[36:44 - 38:00] Final Thoughts & Closing

• Thanks for listening!

Quotes:

“There’s often this assumption that [the gender pay gap] just impacts women, and that’s actually not true. . . . the American taxpayer actually subsidizes the pay gap.”
“In the United States, we could add $3.1T to the economy if we closed the gender equity gap—i.e., the pay gap, labor force participation, and occupational segregation.”
Resources:
Katica's Blog
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