What can you do to help turn the widening gender pay gap around? For 20 years, American workers watched as the discrepancy between men’s and women’s incomes slowly lessened. Then, this October, a new report showed that the positive trend is reversing. Women in the U.S. are now making 76 cents for every dollar men make—a difference of around $14,000 a year.

In this episode, I’m breaking down why we’re seeing this shift and what we can do about it.

Do your part to close the gender wage gap:

• Learn 3 powerful ways you can make a positive difference in the fight for pay equality;
• Hear which 36 million households bear the brunt of this impact;
• And what the data has to say about this shift in momentum.

Related Links:

• National Partnership for Women and Families, “America’s Women and the Wage Gap” - https://nationalpartnership.org/report/americas-women-and-the-wage-gap/
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, “Executive Order 11246” - https://www.eeoc.gov/history/executive-order-no-11246\
• Bossed Up, “The Definitive Guide to Negotiating as a Woman” - https://www.bossedup.org/negotiation
• LinkedIn Learning Course, “Negotiating Your Compensation Package” - https://www.linkedin.com/learning/negotiating-your-compensation-package
• Episode 462, “Understand Pay Transparency and Your Rights as a Job Seeker” - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode462
• Episode 444, “Are Pay Transparency Laws Working?” - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode444
• Episode 422, “What Actually Creates Gender Equality at Work?” - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode422
• Episode 317, “Making Progress on Equal Pay Day” - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode317
• Bossed Up Courage Community - https://www.facebook.com/groups/927776673968737/
• Bossed Up LinkedIn Group - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7071888/

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As managers and employees, how can we ensure that we support equitable disability accommodations for everyone? The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) offers a wealth of protections, but many workers and leaders are unaware of what these protections entail. Luckily, there are experts like Rachel Shaw out there to shed light on their intricacies and help educate us all.

Rachel is a leading strategist in workplace inclusion and disability compliance and the author of “The Disabled Workforce: What the ADA Never Anticipated.” She joins me to add clarity to the laws in place to protect people with disabilities—including mental health and pregnancy—and ensure we have access to an equitable work environment that allows us all to be productive contributors, whatever differences of ability we might experience in our lifetimes.

Understand your rights and responsibilities around disability inclusion:

• The most proactive and effective way to ask for an accommodation;
• The essential accommodation process every organization needs to develop;
• How much it really costs companies to approve employee requests;
• What’s missing from the ADA and how it’s being addressed.

Related Links:

• Connect with Rachel Shaw on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-shaw-00037745/
• Learn more about Rachel’s work - https://rachelshaw.com/
• Buy “The Disabled Workforce” - https://www.amazon.com/Disabled-Workforce-What-Never-Anticipated/dp/1544708599
• Episode 390, How to Manage ADHD in the Workplace - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode390
• Episode 460, Balancing Work with a Complicated Pregnancy - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode460
• Episode 123, Pursuing a Promotion While Pregnant - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode123
• Episode 335, What do mom-friendly Workplaces look like and how to create them - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode335
• Episode 311, How to Talk About Marital Status, Parental Status, and Pregnancy in the Interview - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode311
• Episode 315, How to Talk About Disability or Chronic Illness in the Job Interview - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode315
• LEVEL UP: a Leadership Accelerator for Women on the Rise - https://www.bossedup.org/levelup
• Bossed Up Courage Community - https://www.facebook.com/groups/927776673968737/
• Bossed Up LinkedIn Group - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7071888/

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How do you find contentment in the face of career compromise? So many of us want to “have it all,” but the weight of trying to be it all is crushing - and totally unrealistic. So if you find yourself struggling to keep your head up while navigating necessary trade-offs, today’s episode is for you. In order to even come close to our ultimate career goals, we need to accept that compromises are part of the package. In this episode, I take a look at how we can reframe those tough choices as steps to success, rather than as a failure to measure up.

Start to see your career compromises in a new light by learning

• How to come to terms with the work–life trade-offs you might need to make;
• How to ensure you’re not sabotaging yourself when faced with imperfect opportunities;
• And a practical way to create a container for your ultimate career strategy.

Related Links:

• Episode 504, Girl Power and the Faux Feminism of the 1990s - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode504
• Episode 523, What Our 2025 Community Survey Reveals About Women, Work, and Burnout - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode523
• Episode 498, The Case for the “Good Enough” Job - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode498
• Episode 340, Why a Career Strategy is Important and How to Create a Plan - https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode340
• Negotiating Your Compensation Package LinkedIn Learning Course - https://www.linkedin.com/learning/negotiating-your-compensation-package?trk=course_title&upsellOrderOrigin=default_guest_learning
• Bossed Up Courage Community - https://www.facebook.com/groups/927776673968737/
• Bossed Up LinkedIn Group - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7071888/

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