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Are you looking for data on gender or racial disparities in funding, best practices to host more inclusive meetings, testimonials and insights from diverse scientists, or examples of institutional actions to support mental health and well-being? Find all this and more on the searchable ALBA database of over 1000 resources, curated and categorised by topic, type and group identity.

With this database, we hope to foster an environment of awareness and learning, support individuals and organisations in their DEI efforts, and promote best practices and tools to achieve equity and inclusion. 

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Closing the gender pay gap: A review of the issues, policy mechanisms and international evidence

This working paper was commissioned by the Gender, Equality and Diversity Branch (GED) of the International Labor Office (ILO) in Geneva. It aspires to review key issues, policy mechanisms and international evidence with respect to closing the gender pay gap.

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Pay equity among faculty at Ontario’s universities

Report submitted by Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) to the Ontario Gender Wage Gap Steering Committee, addressing the challenges faced both by tenure stream and by contract faculty.

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Why Do Female Faculty Members Still Earn Less? Gender Pay Gap in Higher Education in Science, Health and Engineering Fields

This study investigates faculty gender pay gap in higher education, while controlling for academic, demographic and family factors. By using data from NSF and drawing on various economic theories such as human capital theory, comparable worth theory, and structural theory, this study will build a framework for examining and comparing the differences in wages for full time-faculty in Science, Health, and Engineering Fields.

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How to Do a Salary Equity Study: With an Illustrative Example From Higher Education

Authors provide a guide for human resource managers describing how to conduct their own salary studies, how to interpret the results, and how organizations can apply the results. Best practices across public sector organizations are described and illustrated with an example from higher education. 

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Gender pay gap - transparency on pay for men and women

Gender pay discrimination is one of the reasons women in the EU earn 16% less than men on average. This EU initiative will introduce binding pay transparency measures, make pay systems more transparent, improve public understanding of the relevant legal concepts and strengthen enforcement mechanisms.

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