{"id":8757,"date":"2017-01-27T10:33:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T15:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/?p=8757"},"modified":"2020-03-18T15:18:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T19:18:05","slug":"tackling-the-wage-gap-with-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/2017\/01\/27\/tackling-the-wage-gap-with-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling the Wage Gap with Code"},"content":{"rendered":"

From BU Today<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"h_butoday_17-1047-WAGE-122\"<\/a>
Computer Science professor and Hariri Institute director Azer Bestavros at a City Hall press conference on the Boston Women\u2019s Workforce Council wage gap report earlier this month, flanked by Katie Conboy, Simmons College provost (from left), former Lt. Governor Evelyn Murphy, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, and Eddie Ahmed, MassMutual Financial Group chief human resources officer. Photo by Cydney Scott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Payroll data for 112,600 area employees reveals that women working in greater Boston make just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, according to a new report from the Boston Women\u2019s Workforce Council<\/a>. That calculation was made possible by researchers at BU\u2019s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering<\/a>, who came up with a secure way for companies to report the data anonymously. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis report is the first of its kind in the country, the first time actual wage data has been reported both anonymously and voluntarily,\u201d Mayor Martin J. Walsh said in announcing the report. \u201cThis is a groundbreaking moment in tackling the gender gap.\u201d<\/p>\n

MaryRose Mazzola, executive director of the council, which is now housed at the Hariri Institute, says BU\u2019s computing expertise \u201cwas absolutely crucial,\u201d in enabling the report.[…]<\/p>\n

The work was carried out by a team at the Hariri Institute\u2019s Software & Application Innovation Lab <\/a>(SAIL), a group of technologists and interns that puts programming expertise at the service of University faculty<\/a>. The team, led by SAIL director Andrei Lapets (BU CS Lecturer and PhD alum, GRS\u201911), consisted of senior software engineer Frederick Jansen and Kyle Holzinger (BU CS undergraduate alum, CAS\u201916) and Eric Dunton (BU CS undergraduate alum, CAS\u201915), who were then students.<\/p>\n

Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From BU Today: Payroll data for 112,600 area employees reveals that women working in greater Boston make just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, according to a new report from the Boston Women\u2019s Workforce Council. That calculation was made possible by researchers at BU\u2019s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1690,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8757"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10286,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions\/10286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}