E877 Fairygodboss Georgene Huang: career marketplace, best co's, equal pay, Sexual Harassment Survey

E877: Fairygodboss CEO & Co-founder Georgene Huang built a career marketplace for women, shares insights on best companies, equal pay, forced arbitration for misconduct, work-life balance, & results from her Sexual Harassment in Workplace Survey that shows, even post- #MeToo, how far we have to go

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Show notes:

0:45 - Jason introduces Georgene Huang of Fairygodboss and what brought it to life.

4:44 - The law around paid leave and job protection after leave looks like

6:26 - Data collection and tech company rankings on Fairygodboss

8:34 - Video demo of the website and what the best jobs for women are

9:56 - Data distribution and the impact of “revenge reviews”

13:31 - Equal pay on the basis of experience

19:25 - Jason and Georgene discuss Ellen Pao’s (CEO of Reddit) salary negotiation ban and James Damore’s Google memo

23:46 - Results of Fairygodboss’ sexual harassment in the workplace: frequency, positions of perpetrators, age, and more

35:45 - Results continued: impacts of the #MeToo movement, sexual harassment training, prevention, forced arbitration, NDA’s,

44:50 - Fairygodboss’ process to profit

47:53 - Work-life balance, self-care and mission-driven companies for Gen Z employees

51:05 - A growing need for a sense of community across generations

57:50 - Identifying personal/professional interactions, and clarifying ambiguous ones (coffee appointments, dinners, etc.)

[assafelron]

Love you and the show Jason, but you are mistaken about Damore's article. Nowhere in the article does he claim that woman in the same job should get a different salary than a man like you said.
I understand that it's difficult in silicone valley to say things outside the strict code that was developed but the truth has bigger merit in my opinion.
Same goes for Georgene's claim about the meaningless of gender disparity in interests because each indivdual should be treated equally and fairly regardless of his\her's gender. That's obvious, no sane person now-days dispute that. Damore doesn't either. The claim is it is against logic and reality do demand equal AVERAGE salaries between man and women (which is what most people who talk about the matter demand), because by average there are differences in interest so there will never be equal pay on average.
Studies actually show that in the most gender equal countries law-wise and culture-wise (like Scandinavian countries) the gap in interest between the genders is even larger. So cultural efforts for equality strangely lead to greater disparity in interests. Nothing wrong in that in my opinion.
All the best,
Assaf.

[HalloCasa]

Awesome episode, Jason, like each one! 😍

[NewsRedial]

So she took job interviews for jobs that require long office hours at 2 months pregnant and hid the fact from her prospective employees. This is predatory.
And she thinks it's outrageous that someone who is a clock watcher and is outa there at 6pm doesn't get the same promotion as those who sacrifice their social life for the job and put in untold overtime to make sure they get everything perfect in order to ensure successful work.