{"id":50734,"date":"2021-08-10T08:50:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T12:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/?p=50734"},"modified":"2023-06-08T04:55:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T08:55:10","slug":"remote-work-and-gender-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/remote-work-and-gender-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote Work and Gender Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gender equality in the workplace is an ongoing issue. Even before COVID-19, women continued to make less, face discrimination during and after pregnancy, and struggle to land leadership positions in companies. Then, along came the pandemic, and remote work. For many women, it was another setback on the road to gender equality. Yet the move to remote and hybrid work environments isn\u2019t all bad for women, either.<\/p>\n

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First, some good news. According to data from the Pew Research Center<\/a>, \u201con average, females make only three percent less than men online, compared to approximately 20-25 percent less in most Western economies.\u201d<\/p>\n

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With telework, women stand to benefit from more gender-balanced career paths and reduced earnings inequalities, according to Era Nabla-Norris, division chief of the International Monetary Fund.<\/p>\n

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Throughout the pandemic, a London Business School professor of strategy and entrepreneurship surveyed both women and men about \u201cthe great work-from-home experiment.\u201d In January 2021, women were more enthusiastic about remote work than men. \u201cWomen rated the impact of remote working on their productivity, decision making, and communication significantly more positively than men,\u201d Julian Birkinshaw and co-authors noted in Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This is despite the fact that when remote work started some were concerned it would perpetuate existing challenges. However, in the London research at least, women were:<\/p>\n

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