10/15/2025

Women Are Taking Pay Cuts as Companies Mandate RTO

Several key factors exist as to why gender pay gap has suddenly widened

In 2023, Courtney Clements made a once-inconceivable career pivot: She took a roughly $30,000 pay cut, leaving a senior executive role after the commercial staffing firm where she worked began requiring employees to come into offices full-time.

It was a significant "step back" professionally, she said. But by taking a role recruiting IT workers from her home in Atlanta, she could spend more time with her daughter.

"In college and in my 20s, if you'd told me that I wouldn't care about climbing the corporate ladder, I'd literally have laughed at you," she said. Now, the 37-year-old says she would choose joblessness "before going back into an office again, at this stage in my life."

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