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After four years on the San Diego City Council, I’ve returned to the world of innovation and entrepreneurship, and this week, here is what’s on my mind as my darling husband, Neil, takes time off to go fishing.
We would like to think that the world is becoming more equitable, that women are getting more opportunities and that the pay gap is narrowing, particularly in STEM, where employer needs outpace the supply.
So I was stunned to read in Stanford Business Insights that women in entry-level STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) jobs are paid less than men even though they are equally qualified. The pay gap is significant about $4,000 annually and it means that women generally stay behind for their entire career.
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What if all of the county’s restaurants reopened their doors following a year-long pandemic that forced massive layoffs and hardly anyone showed up? To work.
It’s more than a hypothetical riddle.
As drinking and dining venues across San Diego County and the nation get the green light to more widely welcome back the customers they’ve been craving since COVID-19 first shut them down almost 14 months ago, they’ve been confronting a near-crisis labor shortage.
While it initially caught employers off guard, it shouldn’t be all that surprising.
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San Diego is experiencing something of a perfect storm as it transitions into life under increasingly relaxed reopening rules driven by rising vaccinations and diminishing infection rates. That, in turn, has unleashed a torrent of job openings not only for restaurants and bars, but also for hotels, casinos, theme parks and other service industries at a time when enhanced jobless benefits remain alluring.
San Diego Restaurants Likens Search for Workers to a War : You Can t Find People
On 5/7/21 at 12:57 PM EDT
Amid the worker shortage across the country, San Diego restaurants are likening the search for employees to a war. It s like a war, just because it feels like this is endless, Dario Gallo, owner of Italian restaurants Civico by the Park and Civico 1845, told
The San Diego Union Tribune. After 14 months of COVID hell, you finally get the orange light to open up at 50 percent capacity and you can t find people to come back to work, David Cohn, co-founder of the Cohn Restaurant Group, added.
Doughnut delivery brings cheer
Laura Kreiss, CEO of locally owned fundraising app ChangeGiving, made a special St. Patrick’s Day delivery of Krispy Kreme doughnuts to health care professionals and first responders at several North County sites to say thank you. Doughnuts were delivered to Scripps Memorial Hospital-Encinitas, Vista Fire/Rescue Station 6, Rancho Santa Fe Patrol and Rancho Santa Fe Fire/Rescue. Scripps-Encinitas has a special place in Kreiss’ heart, as her late husband, Michael, was treated there for lung cancer several years ago. Her ChangeGiving app simplifies giving by allowing users to donate their spare change to fundraising campaigns of their choice. Visit changegiving.io.
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After four years on the San Diego City Council, I’ve returned to the world of innovation and entrepreneurship, and this week, here is what’s on my mind as my darling husband Neil takes time off to go fishing.
We would like to think that the world is becoming more equitable, that women are getting more opportunities, and that the pay gap is narrowing, particularly in STEM where employer needs outpace the supply.
So I was stunned to read in Stanford Business Insights that women in entry-level STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) jobs are paid less than men even though they are equally qualified. The pay gap is significant about $4,000 ANNUALLY and it means that women generally stay behind for their entire career.