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Understanding and Resolving Gender Pay Gap – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1107 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1107 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Ivan Samkov Credit: Ketut Subiyanto Credit: Mehmet Turgut Kirkgoz Preamble Despite decades of progress in gender equality, a significant earnings gap between men and women continues to persist in the workforce. The latest report by the McKinsey Global Institute, ‘Tough Trade-offs: How Time and Career Choices Shape the Gender Pay Gap’, offers a fresh, data-driven perspective on why this disparity endures. By analyzing more than 86,000 real-life career trajectories of U.S. workers, the study presents a compelling case: nearly 80% of the gender pay gap stems from differences in how work experience is accumulated, and the types of career pa...

Broken Rung for Women in the Workplace – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1106 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1106 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Antoni Shkraba Studio Credit: RDNE Stock Project Credit: Vlada Karpovich Preamble The journey of professional advancement is rarely linear, especially for women. Despite strides in education and employment, one stubborn barrier continues to hinder women’s rise in the workplace: the broken rung. This metaphorical broken step on the career ladder represents the first critical promotion from entry-level roles to management—and it is where women’s progress often falters. In their insightful book, *The Broken Rung: When the Career Ladder Breaks for Women—and How They Can Succeed in Spite of It*, McKinsey senior partners Kweilin Ellingrud, Larein...

Women’s Health – The Untapped Opportunity – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1062 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1062 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Cnordic Nordic credit: MART Production Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko Credit: Yan Krukau This post is based on a McKinsey Report. Link at the end. Preamble Most top pharma companies derive more than 60 percent of their revenue from therapies for diseases that affect women uniquely, differently, or disproportionately. Despite significant strides in medicine, women's health remains an underexplored and underfunded sector. Many health concerns that disproportionately affect women are not sufficiently researched or addressed. Conditions such as endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), and various reproductive cancers receive a fraction o...

Women in the Workplace 2024 – The 10th Anniversary Report – Barriers and Challenges Persist– Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1011 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1011 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Johnniel Danao Credit: Katrin Bolovtsova Credit: Yan Krukau Women in the workplace is the largest study on the state of women in corporate America. The study was launched in 2015 by LeanIn.org and McKinsey & Co.; current report is the 10th anniversary report. [Link to full text at the end]. I had presented the positive developments that had been reported by the study participants. In this part, we look at the barriers and challenges which persist and continue to stall the progress of women in the workplace. Perception vs Reality 9 in 10 senior level men think that women’s opportunities to ad...

Women in the Workplace 2024 – The 10th Anniversary Report – Gender Parity and Equity – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1010 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1010 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Edmond Dantès Credit: Jopwell Credit: Ron Lach Preamble Women in the workplace is the largest study on the state of women in corporate America. The findings however can be applied with some variations to other countries. Europe is behind already, and Asian/ African countries are far behind in working towards equal participation of women across the line of command. The study was launched in 2015 by LeanIn.org and McKinsey & Co.; current report is the 10th anniversary report. Over the last 10 years, more than 1,000 companies have participated in the study, and over 480,000 people were surveyed on th...

Professor Dr. Claudia Goldin – Winner of Nobel Prize 2023 for Economic Sciences – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #892 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #892 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Professor Dr. Claudia Goldin Credit: Mehmet Turgut Kirkgoz Credit: Swastik Arora News – Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel in Economics for Studying Women in the Workforce – New York Times Similar news flashed across many platforms as Professor Goldin was chosen for Nobel Prize. She is only the third woman to have won the Nobel Prize in Economics, and the first one to win it solo. Nobel Prize carries a prize amount of 11 million Swedish crowns (US$ 986,000) besides being the highest award recognizing the most valuable contributio...

Girls in Education in Pakistan – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #890 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #890 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Anastasiya Gepp Credit: George Dolgikh Credit: Julia M Cameron Credit: Nicole Berro Let us talk about the great achievements girls are making in education. Pass by any road and we see large billboards displaying extraordinary results obtained by girls, their names, and pictures (mostly) are shown. I wish to raise a point here that it is inappropriate that the names and pictures of young, innocent girls are displayed publicly. Given the pathetic mentality our males have, it could pose risk for anyone of them. There is no doubt that girls are beating the boys in ...

Education in Pakistan – Part 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #681 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #681 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Commitment to Education Programs and their Execution The constitution of Pakistan mandates that “The State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of five to sixteen years in such manner as may be determined by law”. The federal government never committed to this clause of constitution and with 18th amendment, this responsibility was devolved to the provinces who were neither prepared nor committed to it. Pakistan has also consistently committed to education initiatives launched internationally but has not fulfilled its responsibilities enti...

Women in the Workplace 2020 Part IV – McKinsey Report – Blog Post #402 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #402. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Continued from Previous…… In the last part, we see the recommendations for future. We have seen so far that despite progress, the inclusion of women in workforce, and their career growth remains a challenge. Though McKinsey report focuses on organizations in the US only, but other reports from Europe show similar issues. Among Asian countries, there are many variations. For example, Japanese women prefer to stay home, rather than pursue a career. In other East Asian countries, women work as a matter of routine along with men. Middle East and South Asia have more leaning to...