Issue 7: Equality

Organizations are increasingly taking action to ensure that everyone has equal access to recruitment, development and opportunities. In the past decade, we’ve made great strides in ensuring equal pay for equal work and protecting people from discrimination based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, race or disability. But there are still many obstacles to achieving these goals at a global level. And there are larger questions of financial inclusion and digitization that no one person can answer. ADP ReThink Quarterly Issue 7 looks at how far we’ve come, and what work still lies ahead.

Real people talk banks

What hurdles remain for regular people trying to participate in the global financial system? We talked to eight people around the world to find out.

Women occupy more than 60% of the seats in Rwanda’s parliament.

Rwanda, from economic ruins to female empowerment

This small landlocked country in East Africa has made a remarkable economic recovery after the devastating 1994 genocide.

Global banking in 4 infographics

Financial inclusion is on the rise around the world, but barriers remain, especially in lower-income countries and among rural populations.

How six people in Malta earn their euros

A tax haven rich in history and soaked in sun: The tiny island nation between the coasts of Northern Africa and Italy has many stories to tell.

About 300 people work as ninjas in Japan today; only 20 are women.

A full-time ninja carries on ancient traditions

Kunoichi — female ninjas — have played a special role in the history of Japan, and exist to this day.

The Nordics’ wage transparency experiment

Sweden, Norway and Finland embrace a culture of openness that includes salary transparency for everyone. But has it helped reduce the gender pay gap?

How to use payroll data for good

Data gathered through voluntary self-identification is the key to identifying and fixing discrimination-based pay gaps within an organization.

How will tech advances affect the skilled vs. unskilled pay gap?

Two experts debate the changing wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers.

76% of workers say they would look for a new job if their company had a gender pay gap.

Cowries, the currency that powered West Africa

For centuries, cowrie shells were a driving currency behind the slave trade. But their impact across Africa goes back much further than that.

“In France, often to simplify means to complexify.”

Why payroll in France is so complicated

Liberté, égalité … complexité? France’s robust social security system means payroll departments have a lot of accounting to do.

The origins of white collar vs. blue collar

The collared divide of occupations emerged in the 1930s, following more than a century of changes in the nature of work and clothing.

Volker Schrank on the importance of cybersecurity

Upgrading global payroll processes at Mondelēz International was a big investment and a tough sell — until a ransomware attack changed everything.

We need to talk about pay more

Talking about pay is taboo in many places, but it’s also one of the best tools to combat pay inequality. Now, some places are requiring even more pay transparency.

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