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Blaming
Women's Choices for the Gender Pay Gap
Attributing women’s lower pay to their own lifestyle
choices is seductive. At first blush, this argument sounds
reasonable. However, a closer look reveals that the language
of “choice” obscures larger social forces
that maintain the wage gap and the very real constraints
under which women labor.
Ignore
the Ambition Double Standard
You Can Love Your Job and Love Your Life
It’s our prevailing cultural paradigm: ambitious
men are go-getters, but ambitious women are the b-word,
bad wives, bad mothers, and brazenly arrogant businesswomen.
Leadership
& Confidence
Many Women Are Competent, but Lack Confidence
As a business coach, I’ve often encountered female
executives with confidence problems. I've run into this
so many times with emerging women leaders—women
so deeply competent in their skills and so dearly lacking
confidence in them.
Equality
and Equity— Equal and Different
People are different. We need to understand those differences
and act in a way that maximizes the value of the differences.
Women
and Men have Equal Aspirations in the Workplace
Equal Aspirations, But Unequal Obstacles
Ambition
in Women
Adolescent girls, unlike boys, encounter myriad difficulties
as they begin to form their ambitions.
Negotiate
Your Way to Success
Negotiation is a word that conjures up images of boardrooms,
power plays and attorneys. We often find ourselves intimidated
by the very concept of negotiation, and we’re overwhelmed
before we begin. But, it doesn’t have to be that
way.
Top
10 Rules for Women in Business
What makes women successful in business? What can we learn
from the high profile success stories that are out there?
Probing
the Glass Ceiling
Women comprise
46.5% of the U.S. workforce, 49% of all managers, 16%
of upper managers, and 2% of the Fortune 500 CEO's. What
major factors contribute to this imbalance, influencing
a woman's ability to reach the top in today's corporate
world?
Making
the Most of Criticism and Praise
A Good Leader Learns These Lessons
Women
on Corporate Boards Makes
Good Business Sense
With few exceptions, corporate boards of directors have
historically been composed of white males. That is changing,
albeit slowly.
Confronting
the Gender Gap in Wages
Women are winning the numbers game in the workforce. They
now fill almost half of the country’s managerial
jobs. Despite equal representation among the ranks of
wage earners, however, women continue to come up short
in their paychecks.
The
Gender Wage Gap: Debunking the Rationalizations
Higher levels of education increase women’s earnings,
just as they do for men. However, there is no evidence
that the gender gap in wages closes at higher levels of
education. If anything, the reverse is true: at the very
highest levels of education, the gap is at its largest.
Gender
Wage Gap: Are you paid as much as a man if he had your
job?
Women working full time still earn only 77 cents for every
full-time male dollar. If you’re a woman, what would
you do with that extra 23 cents—an increase of nearly
one-third on top of your current 77-cent paycheck—a
raise that brought you up even with men?
Sharon
Allen's Advice to Women: Inform Others of Your Accomplishments!
Taking Her Advice You Too Can Rise To CEO
The
Differences Between Men and Women
Nancy Clark interviews Martha Barletta
Know the games men play: One-Up, One-Down, and Put-Down.
Nice
Girls Don't Get the Corner Office
It's A Myth That Hard Work Alone Will Get
You Ahead
The
Rules of the Game of Business
Too Many Women Are Feeling Stuck Or Passed
Over
John
Gray: Tips for Women Who Want to Work Well With Men
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The
"Old Boy" Network
Do Men In Upper Management Invite Lower Level
Males To Lunch?
Learning
to Ask
Our studies show that women are much less likely than
men to use negotiation to get ahead and get what they
want. All the negotiation advice in the world is useless
if you never get to the bargaining table in the first
place.Learn to ask!
Listening
to Women: New Perspectives on Negotiation
Negotiation is the way that business gets done today.
And women—the newest entrants to the business world—have
powerful insights into the negotiation processes needed
in today’s fast-paced environment.
Sex
Discrimination: What should you do now?
So you know you’re facing unfair sex discrimination
on the job. Maybe you found out your employer is systematically
paying women less than men for the same work. Or you got
fired as soon as you said you were pregnant. Or your male
coworkers have been groping and propositioning you and
the other women relentlessly, and the company won’t
make them stop. Should you sue?
Occupational
Ghettos
See the latest research showing there are still a great
many occupations that are segregated by gender.
Gender
in Business: When Women Are Not Heard
Find Out How To Handle This Situation
Be
Fluent in Both Pink and Blue
The Female Is No Longer Undervalued
Communicating
with Men at Work
It's Important To Recognize The Differences
Building
a Flexible Workplace
Flexibility—variations in the time and place of
work—is used by many employees for a wide variety
of work and personal reasons.
Gender
in Business: How You Can Handle Demeaning Comments
Pick The Response That Best Fits The Situation
How
To Succeed in a Male-Dominated Profession
Follow
These Three Strategies To Success
Tom
Peters says "Women Roar"
He leaves no doubt of the tremendous benefits for organizations
that recognize the importance of women.
Listening
to Women: New Perspectives on Negotiation
Negotiation is the way that business gets done today.
And women—the newest entrants to the business world—have
powerful insights into the negotiation processes needed
in today’s fast-paced environment.
Kate
White: CheatSheet for Women
Who
Are On Their Way Up
Sex
in the Workplace:
Still a Challenge for the Corporate Woman
"My Boss Asked Me to Dinner and Wanted Me for Dessert"
ran the title at the top of a recent Fortune advice column.
Guess what: sex remains alive and well in the American
corporate workplace, and so does the double standard.
And for many women eager to climb the corporate ladder,
these realities can be career-threatening.
What’s
Venus Got To Do With It?
An Investment Banker's Advice For Women Entrepreneurs
Use
Communication Strength in Business
Must You Sacrifice Some Likeability For Authority?
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Closing
the Gender Gap