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Obstacles to entrepreneurship, pay gap, reticence about self-promotion, not realizing what your brand is
Source:
theadvocate.com
- Nov 15, 2017
Women in Louisiana face many obstacles, the most glaring being the largest pay gaps in the country, the state's first lady, Donna Edwards, said Tuesday.
"Women in Louisiana earn just 66 percent of what men earn. For women of color, the numbers are even worse, 49 percent for African-American women and 52 percent for Hispanic women. I'm going to stop here for a second because it infuriates me a little bit when people say, 'That's not true.' It's absolutely true," Edwards said in kicking off Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week.
One of her nieces, who graduated with a degree in the exact area her employer wanted and even had experience in that field, replaced a man who didn't have the same educational background or any experience when he started, Edwards said. After taking the job, her niece discovered she was being paid 60 percent of what her predecessor made.
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