Josie Cox
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New York, NY, United States
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U.S. Gender Pay Gap Remains Stable And Little Changed From 20 Years Ago, Pew Research Finds
The gender pay gap in the U.S. remained relatively stable last year, with women earning an average of 82% of what men earned, according to the latest analysis of median hourly earnings for both full-and part-time workers conducted by the Pew Research Center. → Read More
Markets To Mountains And Back Again: What A City Banker Learned From Conquering Mount Everest
Ronan Murphy, an investment banker at Société Générale in London, summited the world's tallest mountain on May 23. → Read More
Thinking About Retraining? Consider The HR Department
Posts advertising for human resource professionals in the U.S. have leapt by almost 47% compared to a pre-Covid-19 base rate. → Read More
Why Your Post-Covid Desk Assignment Could Make Or Break Your Career
As workplaces endeavor to reopen fully after Covid-19—often with entirely new layouts and ostensibly with issues like diversity and inclusion front of mind — managers should be aware of exactly what’s at stake when determining who goes where. → Read More
Pride Pays: LGBT-Friendly Businesses Are More Profitable, Research Shows
Much evidence shows that companies promoting gender and racial diversity perform better financially, but fresh analysis shows that the same is true of companies with LGBT-friendly policies. → Read More
What it's been like to move countries in the middle of lockdown
I moved to New York about two and a half months ago, to a neighbourhood that I’m told is perpetually abuzz. Today it’s not. → Read More
A plummeting economy, a dangerous addiction to debt and investors who won't listen: The scary reality of a post-corona world
About a year ago, when Corona was a beer and face masks were reserved for fancy dress parties, one of the world’s most important credit rating agencies published a report in which it admitted that it was getting nervous about the state of the economy. → Read More
The US economy just hit its worst quarter since 2008 — but the human story behind that number is even bleaker
The hard and fast empirical evidence of just how economically damning Covid-19 will be is starting to trickle in. The numbers — though wholly expected — make for grim reading. → Read More
Climate change is bringing Britain to boil. So let’s make all public transport free like Luxembourg
Would you be able to place Luxembourg on a map? Many wouldn't, and yet the tiny western European country – home to about 600,000 people and approximately the size of Rhode Island - could well be emerging as a trailblazer in the fight against climate change. → Read More
Corporate Britain is treating gender diversity like a tick-box exercise. It has to stop
After all these years – like the most annoying, amnesiac gadfly – I’m still going on about it because the message clearly isn’t resonating: diverse companies make better companies, so gender issues are everyone’s business. → Read More
Lagarde and von der Leyen are doing great things for feminism, but can they save Europe?
For purist feminists with an eye on Europe the past week has been pretty good. After decades of male dominance at the top of two of Europe’s most powerful institutions, Ursula von der Leyen and Christine Lagarde unexpectedly secured the backing of the bloc’s leaders to head up the European Commission and the European Central Bank respectively, taking over from Jean-Claude → Read More
Jony Ive’s designs made Apple dominant. His departure shows the company is losing its lustre
From foundation to brink of bankruptcy and trillion-dollar market capitalisation, a potted history of Apple serves not only as a useful guide to market dynamics, but also teaches us a thing or two about behavioural economics, consumer psychology and the sustainability of the trends shaping the world we live in. → Read More
UK Plc might be missing a £100bn trick by not taking technology seriously
“After two decades online, I'm perplexed,” American astronomer Clifford Stoll admitted in an article penned for Newsweek back in 1995. “It's not that I haven't had a gas of a good time on the Internet,” he explained, adding that he’d “met great people and even caught a hacker or two”. “But,” he conceded, “I'm uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community.” → Read More
The North is still Westminster's unloved stepchild. And Brexit is only going to make things worse
Politicians are shamelessly fickle creatures. From Mexican border walls to £350 million a week for the NHS, few things are too farfetched when it comes to the pledges of those vying to lead a state, regardless of whether the finances add up. → Read More
Of course women would make better prime ministers than men – they just haven’t had the chance to prove it
I’ve quite frankly got no idea why anyone would want to be the leader of a country that has transformed itself into what could happily serve as a decent punchline for practically every joke for the next few decades. But clearly there are people who would disagree. → Read More
More women would follow MacKenzie Bezos by donating their fortunes. Too bad they can't make it rich
I’m a few chapters from finishing one of the most compelling books I’ve read in years and I’ve never been more convinced of our desperate need to challenge the thriving patriarchy in everything we do. Caroline Criado Perez’s Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, in the most methodically candid manner, does exactly what its title claims. → Read More
Prince Harry should know better – there’s another side to the social media story he hasn’t acknowledged
Oh, Harry. You and your wife are three days and three posts into a new “social media strategy” and already you’ve put your royal foot in it. On Tuesday you launched the @sussexroyal Instagram account. Then on Thursday you slated social media for being “more dangerous” than drugs and alcohol, because of its addictive qualities. → Read More
We're overdue a global recession — and Lyft and its unicorn friends are nudging us closer every day
Whatever your thoughts on ride-sharing companies, the tech sector in general or, indeed, the broader economy, you can’t accuse Uber rival Lyft of being short on ambition. This morning the company celebrated its stock market debut in New York, having successfully flogged shares to delighted investors who had been starved of the opportunity to buy into a tech-flavoured stock → Read More
Apple’s latest attempt to dominate our lives is doomed to fail... thankfully
A fierce battle has been raging for some time in the kingdom of corporate behemoths. Last year, billionaire Jeff Bezos seemed to be the reigning monarch, occupying the throne with his tightening grip on the world of retail, entertainment and – increasingly – finance. But to no one’s surprise Apple’s Tim Cook wasn’t exactly napping on the sidelines as Amazon roared. → Read More
We would now rather be ruled over by robots than politicians. What has Brexit done to us?
The sinister way in which the rise of technology is portrayed in much of the mainstream media is starting to look like a string of clichés at best, and a teaser for a low-budget dystopian Netflix series at worst. Robots are stealing our jobs, artificial intelligence will render our hard-earned skills useless, and we’re all destined to turn into virtual reality nerds with the → Read More