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The Ongoing Pay Gap For Working Class Professionals

The Horizons Tracker

A new study from the Social Mobility Foundation finds that if you’re a professional worker from a working-class background, you’re making around £6,291 less each year compared to those from a professional-managerial background. For professional women from working-class backgrounds, it’s a double whammy.

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Social Class In The C-Suite

The Horizons Tracker

It’s fair to say that class plays a significant role in whether people get into the C-suite or not. Indeed, research shows that workers from working-class backgrounds are over 30% less likely to be recruited into a managerial role than their middle-class peers.

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Being Working Class In “Elite” Professions

The Horizons Tracker

At the back end of last year, I wrote about the “class gap” that exists in many professions. Indeed, so pronounced is this gap that the Social Mobility Foundation mark November 14, as this is the effective date at which working-class employees stop earning compared to their peers.

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Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

Darrin Williams , CEO of Southern Bancorp, may have been a little surprised when a world-class business school professor came knocking at his door. For two decades she focused on organizations that were doing nothing short of reinventing capitalism by introducing innovative new business models. It was a model for the future.

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How Physical Exercise Allows Entrepreneurs to Refresh

Strategy Driven

Reduces Stress and Anxiety Entrepreneurship, as great as it is, comes with its fair share of stressors, from managing finances to meeting deadlines. Promotes Creativity and Innovation Taking a break from work to engage in physical activity can stimulate creativity.

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How Home Ownership Affects Voting Patterns

The Horizons Tracker

They thought that the performance of the country’s biggest asset class, residential real estate, might affect how people vote. The researchers looked at 30 years of data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency Housing Price Index. Researchers from the Pamplin College of Business came up with a new theory about national elections.

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The Gender Revolution Changes Who Holds The Purse Strings

The Horizons Tracker

New research from Lancaster University explores the changing nature of domestic finances, and specifically which partner tends to take the dominant role in domestic spending. “The findings highlight that the gender revolution has taken very different paths across different social classes. ” Domestic spending. Going solo.

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