Simmons College’s School of Management announced a newly created partnership with the city of Boston to further the success of the Boston Women’s Workforce Council. Mayor Martin J. Walsh convened the first meeting of the Boston Women’s Workforce Council under his Administration, during which he unveiled this partnership with the School of Management at Simmons College and others.
The Council’s mission is to work with businesses in the Greater Boston area in a private-public endeavor to eliminate the gender wage gap, remove visible and invisible barriers to women’s advancement and ensure that 100% of the talent pool in Boston is used to make this the best region in the country for working women. The partnership among the Walsh Administration, Simmons, and the Council marks a new chapter for the Council, which was originally formed in April 2013.
“I am pleased to partner with Dean Minehan and Simmons College, which has a long and storied history of advancing women. I am deeply committed to closing the wage gap and to ensuring economic equality for women who work in the Boston area,” said Mayor Walsh. “Partnering with Simmons College, and working with the members of the Council and other interested organizations allows us to elevate and expand the Council’s scope and scale by ensuring we have the resources, contacts, and expertise needed to implement the Council’s goals.”
Over the next three years, the Council will hold an annual conference on best-practices in gender equity in the workplace and will publish two reports on evaluating the status of the wage gap in Boston. Simmons and the City of Boston will partner with at least one other organization that will handle the collection, analysis, and reporting of data.