Forbes: Meet The Woman Investor Pushing Amazon, Google, And More To Close Gender Pay Gap

Within 24 hours last week, Amazon.com and Expedia, Inc. — two of the largest internet companies in the world — both announced their intentions to close the gender pay gap among their employees. Amazon, in fact, said they’d essentially closed it already, paying women 99.9% of what men working for the e-commerce giant make. Expedia, for its part, committed to disclosing its gender pay equity policies and goals by October.

These two companies are the latest to respond to pressure from Arjuna Capital, the activist arm of Boston investment firm Baldwin Brothers Inc. and a shareholder in many of the country’s biggest tech outfits. In February, Intel reported it had reached 100% gender pay parity. Apple indicated its women workers were making 99.6 cents to every man’s dollar, excluding bonuses and stock.

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