1 THE HIGHEST-PAID CEOS RUN SOME OF THE WORST-PERFORMING COMPANIES
A study of 429 large-cap U.S. companies, done from 2006 to 2015 by MSCI ESG Research, a firm that analyzes corporate governance, found that total shareholder returns for companies with CEO pay that exceeded the sector median–by as much as 39%–performed worse than companies with less excessive pay.
2 MEN’S EMPLOYMENT PLAYS AN OUTSIZE ROLE IN DIVORCE
A study from Harvard University found that an unemployed husband married after 1975 was 33% more likely to get divorced within a year than a fully employed man, all other things being equal.
3 BEING TRANSGENDER IS NOT A MENTAL DISORDER
A study published in The Lancet Psychiatry suggests that feelings about gender identity are not the primary cause of transgender people’s mental distress, as has been widely believed; the distress stems more from their common experiences of social rejection and violence.
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