When the World Economic Forum announced in 2015 that “we are 217 years away from closing the gender pay gap”, Dr Zara Nanu decided that something needed to be done about it. At the same conference, she heard that by 2030 most of us will be in self-driving cars. “I also heard that Nasa was saying we’ll be waving people off to Mars.” The CEO of Gapsquare says it was hard to listen to these short-range technology predictions while realising “we’re still two centuries away from pay parity”.
Gapsquare develops AI-based software that crunches employment data to address issues such as gender pay inequality, with Nanu seeing it as her mission “to help organisations put a stop to biases and prejudicial practices preventing equality”. In recognition of her achievements, Nanu received an MBE in the late Queen Elizabeth’s Jubilee Birthday Honours list, for “services to tackling global workplace inequalities and promoting fairness and inclusion”.
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