New Salary Analysis For Equal Pay Day

For Equal Pay Day, New Analysis Shows Unequal Wages Cost Los Angeles strong Area Women More Than $6 Billion in Income Each Year

If Wage Gap Closed, Women in the Los Angeles Area Could Afford .5 Year's Worth of Food, Three Months of Rent or 900+ Gallons of Gas Annually

A new analysis released for Equal Pay Day tomorrow reveals that the Los Angeles area’s gender-based wage gap is punishing local families and the economy. Women who are employed full time in the Los Angeles area are paid 92 cents for every dollar paid to men, amounting to a yearly gap in wages of $3,665. Collectively, this amounts to a loss of more than $6 billion in income every year – money that could strengthen the local economy and provide critical support to the more than 626,000 Los Angeles area households headed by women.

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The Lean Back To Help Other Women In Business

The Lean In Alternative: Why Leaning Back Also Works for Women in Business

Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In has received both high praise and disapproval from women. Whether you agree with everything she writes or not, says Vickie Milazzo, the core lesson that women should lean in and become leaders in the workplace is solid advice. But, she adds, in their rise to the top, women should also make an effort to lean back to help other women.

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Wells Fargo To Lend $55 Billion To Women-Owned Businesses

SAN FRANCISCO, March 8, 2013 – Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), America’s No. 1 small business lender¹ and a leading lender to women- and diverse-owned businesses, today announced a commitment to lend a cumulative total of $55 billion to women-owned businesses in the U.S. by the year 2020, updating its lending commitment first established in 1995. The announcement will be made by Lisa Stevens, Wells Fargo lead executive for Small Business and West Coast Regional Banking president, at the Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE) 22nd Annual Latina History Day conferencein Los Angeles.

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