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Thousands of companies have made diversity, equity (including gender equity) and inclusion a key element of their organizational talent strategy, giving working women additional leverage to prioritize benefits.

;Domestic large capitalization equities (+25%) outperformed domestic small/mid-capitalization equities (+12%).; ;Long corporate and long government bonds, typically used in liability-driven investing strategies, had losses of 2% and 6%, respectively.; While overall investment returns were slightly higher, an active year in pension risk transfers and lower-than-normal cash contributions resulted in a decline in assets year over year.

The requirement to document and justify how pay decisions are made is meant to reframe how companies approach workplace equity and the broader culture of accountability.

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Instead, employers are redirecting spending toward more scalable, defensible strategies, Scott-Wears said, such as compensation technology, pay equity analytics and better modeling tools.

This portion was calculated by measuring a party’s equity as a percentage of total equity.

Despite access to the same retirement benefits, a significant gender savings gap exists, according to a study of nearly 4,000 workplace 401(k) participants that’s been fielded annually since 2014 by T.

As we plan out our editorial calendar for Workspan each year, we try to keep our focus on the compensation-related challenges that are consistently front and center for compensation professionals — pay compression, pay equity, geographic pay strategies, sales compensation and much more.

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There is a strong correlation between women in leadership positions and higher returns on equity and invested capital.