{"id":2141,"date":"2012-11-07T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2012-12-01T21:49:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T05:49:37","slug":"why-arent-we-using-our-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=2141","title":{"rendered":"Why Aren\u2019t We Using Our Analytics?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There are everyday annoyances, and then there are just things that piss you off.\u00a0 Usually the things that make me really angry are\u00a0when something should have been fixed, but it hasn\u2019t been.\u00a0 Or something is happening too slowly where I should have just done something myself and been done with it.\u00a0 Personally, I think I\u2019m a pretty patient guy, but every now and then I\u2019m shocked into anger.\u00a0 Today\u2019s topic?\u00a0 NPR last week did a piece about the male and fe<\/a>male wage gap.\u00a0 Apparently it\u2019s still there<\/a>:<\/p>\n

So, as the Washington Post notes, the authors tried to make everything as similar as possible. They tracked graduates with identical collegiate experiences, limited familiarity with the work world, and those who didn’t have spouses or children.<\/p>\n

But the wage gap persisted.<\/p>\n

The study found that in teaching, female college graduates earned 89 percent of what men did. In business, women earned 86 percent compared to men. In sales occupations, women earned 77 percent of what men took home. \u00a0 (1)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So here\u2019s the thing: WHY THE EFF ARE WE NOT USING OUR BASIC REPORTING SKILLS???<\/strong><\/p>\n

If we were back in 1989, I get it \u2013 it was hard to pull and aggregate all of that data.\u00a0 If it was 1995, only half of us were on PeopleSoft and the other half of us were managing something so clunky I\u2019ve probably never seen it.\u00a0 By 2001, everyone had upgraded due to the Y2K non-event and we all had basic reports.\u00a0 We\u2019re a decade after this and if we all just ran a report that had 2 rows on it, we\u2019d have fixed this already.\u00a0 Row 1 = Average Wage of Males in Org.\u00a0 Row 2 = Average Wage of Females in Org.\u00a0 You can get more sophisticated and run this by jobs or departments.\u00a0 You could run this by job AND tenure.\u00a0 You could get really creative in whatever you want to do.\u00a0 But here\u2019s the bottom line:<\/p>\n

EFFING RUN THE REPORT!!!!!\u00a0 (and while you\u2019re at it, RUN IT ON ETHNICITY TOO!!!)<\/strong><\/p>\n

And helpful hint number 1:\u00a0 You might want to run the thing and give it to managers right before\/during merit time so they can see just what bastards they are.\u00a0 And just so we are clear, there is no hiding behind \u201cwe don\u2019t have the budget to give you more than 3%\u201d on this one.\u00a0 This is called the equity increase.\u00a0 What you don\u2019t have budget for is the $1M lawsuit that I hope is coming if you don\u2019t act on it.<\/p>\n

Helpful hint number 2:\u00a0 Organizations I\u2019ve worked with on analytics always had a gender and ethnicity pay, hiring and tenure scorecard as part of their monthly or quarterly deck.\u00a0 Companies who do this right are looking at this every month\/quarter and know exactly where they stand.\u00a0 They won\u2019t get it right 100% of the time because we\u2019re still looking at aggregated data on a scorecard, but at least they know they are on target as a whole.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s sad, is that while there are a variety of reasons this stuff happens (some managers really do suck, sometimes women may not negotiate as strongly, whatever), the effects of this are pretty serious.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s gender or race, the impacted have about 10% less money in doing the same job to pay their bills, buy a nicer house, and sending kids to better colleges.\u00a0 Guys, this is a big big deal, and we are actually empowered to do something to expose it, and are empowered to bring this to light.\u00a0 There\u2019s no excuse if we don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

<\/end rant><\/p>\n

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  1. Korva Coleman, NPR.org. October 24, 2012, \u201c Equal Pay For Equal Work: Not Even College Helps Women\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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