Welcome Remarks

• Kimberly Borman, Executive Director, Boston’s Women Workforce Council

Remarks from city hall

• Alex Lawerence, Chief People Officer, City of Boston, discussed what City is doing as an employer to better support their employees and target gender equity.

“Our charge goes beyond hiring and promotions its about re-envisioning a work environment that is human centered”

Presentation from McKinsey and Company: “2023 Women in the workplace Study”

• Dr. Megan Ann Greenfield, Partner, McKinsey and Company

• Highlights from the presentation include:

  • Women’s representation in job categories

  • Debunking myths about women’s workplace experience and career advancement

  • “The Broken Rung”

  • Recommendations for companies

BWWC 2023 GENDER AND RACIAL WAGE GAP DATA REVEAL

This year marked the Boston Women’s Workforce Council’s fifth data collection effort, a first-in-the-nation approach to collecting and aggregating confidential payroll information to provide a community snapshot of the gender and racial wage gaps in Greater Boston.

BWWC Exectuive Director, Kimberly Borman presented findings from the 2023 Measurement.

Highlights from the presentation include:

• Gender Wage Gap

• Racial/ Ethnic Wage Gap

• Gender and Racial/Ethnic Wage Gap

• Representation by Job Category

• Industry Gaps

• Implications

Presentation Q and A

• Kimberly Borman, Executive Director, Boston’s Women Workforce Council

• Dr. Megan Ann Greenfield, Partner, McKinsey and Company

FIRESIDE CHAT AND Q&A

• Beth Chandler, President and CEO of YW Boston and BWWC Council Member

• Cathy Minehan, BWWC Co-Chair

“We were really intentional… it is also about how do you do culture change in an organization, and that is probably the hardest part, because you can change a policy but the policy doesn’t necessarily get you to the culture change that you need” - Beth Chandler

Closing remarks

“The pursuit of equity is as old as America itself… but in recent years the significance of equity has emerged not as a law… but rather as a value… equity is about fairness..” - Evelyn Murphy, BWWC Co-Chair

BWWC 2023 ANNUAL REPORT

Our 2023 Annual Report features the results of our 2023 Gender and Racial Wage Gap Measurement, which highlights the wage gaps that exist in Greater Boston and how we can use this data as a benchmark as we continue our work towards eliminating these gaps. 

Additional resources and News Coverage

• McKinsey and Company: “Women in the Workplace 2023 Study”

• The Boston Club and Bentley University: “Toward Gender Parity in Corporate Leadership - Steady, but Slow and Uneven Progress”

• The Boston Globe: “Gender wage gap in Boston shrinks, while racial gap grows”

• WBUR: For the first time, the gender wage gap in Greater Boston shrank. But the racial wage gap continued to grow

• Boston.com: Gender wage gap in Boston decreases while racial gap widens

• Boston Business Journal: Five things: New hotel opening, MGB net income, FDA wins and celebrations

• GBH: Here’s how gender and race impact what people earn in Boston GBH

• YW Boston