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        <title><![CDATA[Laura Colby - Former Managing Diversity]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Philanthropist Pushing Bankers to Do Good]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Audette Exel has assembled a crack team of consultants from the world’s top institutions who donate their skills to battle poverty.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2018 16:00:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Google's Equal-Pay Claim for Women Comes With an Asterisk]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Colby]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:10:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Guns-Divesting Activist Calls Strategy a Failure]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[American Express Joins Chorus Declaring Gender Pay Parity]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2018 15:23:59 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[JPMorgan Joins U.S. Banks Showing Pay Gap for Women of Only 1%]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:44:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wall Street May Be Rethinking Its Relationship With Guns]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Colby]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2018 01:01:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Banks Aren’t Showing Their Math on Identical 1% Gender Pay Gaps]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordyn Holman]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2018 18:01:09 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wells Fargo Agrees to Disclose Pay Gaps, Following U.S. Rivals]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura J Keller]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2018 15:30:23 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Won't Companies Release Gender Pay Data? It's Embarrassing]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[David Hellier]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 06:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Citigroup Discloses Gender and Racial Pay Gaps, Plans Raises]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Colby]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sexual Harassment Explains a Lot About Why Women Get Paid Less]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:58:43 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Retail Industry Meltdown Hits Women Hard; Men Remain Unscathed]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Colby]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Wall Street’s Finally Pushing to Add Women on Boards]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street get behind shareholder bids.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Colby]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2017 10:00:09 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What It’s Like to Be a Sustainable Investor Under Trump]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[How to do environmental, social, and governance investing when the government is rolling back regulations.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Colby]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2017 09:00:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Women Are Starting More New Businesses, But Struggling for Financing]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Colby]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2017 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Asian American Executives Are Missing on Wall Street]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The group makes up less than 15 percent of upper management at four of the biggest U.S. banks]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Colby]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:33:47 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Asian Americans Climb the Corporate Ladder, But Only So High]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Colby]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2017 18:23:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Anita Hill Describes the Red Flags for Sexual Harassment]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2017 18:23:55 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Being a Woman Got Even Worse in 2017, World Economic Forum Says]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2017 23:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Johnson Makes Rare Speech as Fidelity Deals With Harassment]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2017 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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