Pipeline Equity

When we talk about gender equity, we often forget to talk about the impact it has on the economy. Yes, the pandemic stung women the hardest, for which we (carelessly and relentlessly) blame childcare or the paucity of paid maternity leave. However, we often forget to mention how the pandemic has obliterated decades of progress toward gender equity, thus draining $3.1 trillion from our economy.

Pipeline CEO and gender economist, Katica Roy, notes that gender equity is a $3.1 trillion economic opportunity in the U.S. alone, so it’s in everyone’s best interest to accelerate progress toward equity.

Pipeline CEO and gender economist, Katica Roy, looks at the major events that brought us closer – and further away – from true equality.

In this episode of Breaking the Bias, Consciously Unbiased founder Ashish Kaushal sits down with Katica Roy, a gender economist and founder of Pipeline, a company that uses analytics to quantify unconscious bias within an organization.

America’s nationwide labor shortage is about to complete its second year. Over three million people are missing from the workforce since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and many of them are women.

Creating more opportunity for women and employees who belong to minority groups should remain a top priority for businesses headed into the new year, despite current economic worries, according to diversity, equity and inclusion experts.

Katica Roy, CEO at Pipeline, discusses working to ensure equal pay and promoting pay transparency laws.

Pipeline CEO and Gender Economist, Katica Roy, joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the women and middle-aged workers missing from the workforce right now, pay transparency laws’ role in addressing gender wage gaps, and inflation’s impact on female consumers.

Want to stick a soft landing? Try sticking to an agenda of gender equity. By closing the gender equity gap in the U.S. labor market, we can achieve the coveted soft landing policy leaders are striving for. And in doing so, we can reap the $1.789 trillion upside of labor market equity.

Listen to or watch this amazing conversation to hear Katica’s personal story and learn eye-opening facts, like when the gap starts that reduces female CEOs to 8% of Fortune 500 Companies, how to alleviate it, and how that affects women’s future potential for political offices.