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Posted by Cait Clarke in Executive Women Negotiating, Job Inequality, Male vs. Female on May 18th, 2012 | No Comments

Good News for Women’s Pay but You Still Gotta Fight

Times Are Changin’ Dept. Good news for the fight against women’s pay discrimination comes from Israel where the High Court dramatically stood up for equality in a country where the wage gaps are bigger than in most western countries (The average for OECD countries is about 84 percent, with Germany at 78 percent and the United [...]

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Posted by Cait Clarke in Family Negotiating, Household Management, Personal Finance on May 14th, 2012 | No Comments

Cut Medical Costs with Doctors

If you think that medical charges cannot be negotiated, think again!  In fact, there are probably few areas where daring to ask can have as much impact on your financial health than negotiating doctor and hospital bills. Even good medical insurance increasingly covers less and entails more out-of-pocket and deductibles ($1000 for individuals, $2000 for [...]

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Posted by Cait Clarke in Executive Women Negotiating, Female Psychology, Job Bargaining, Male vs. Female on May 1st, 2012 | No Comments

‘Fake It Until You Make It’

What do men’s ‘fish stories’ (“You oughta have seen the one that got away!”) have to do with the ability of women to negotiate for a good job?  Plenty, according to some recent research and a new book.  Call it what you want—self-confidence, exaggeration, chutzpah—but men have more of it than women and use it [...]

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Posted by Cait Clarke in Uncategorized on April 27th, 2012 | No Comments

“Hi, I’m Molly Brown and I’ve Got a Question”

Attended a great support-building session today of Running Start, a DC-based non-profit that encourages young women to participate in politics. Founded in 2007 by Susannah Wellford Shakrow—lawyer,  Congressional staffer, member of Hillary Clinton’s Health Care Task Force—the organization offers training and mentoring to high schools from around the country. At the architecturally stunning offices of [...]

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Posted by Cait Clarke in Executive Women Negotiating, Female Psychology, Job Bargaining, Male vs. Female on April 24th, 2012 | No Comments

‘Get Hired, Not Screwed’

New twist on an old tale in a clever blog on a tres, tres cool site, Dame Magazine—how to pitch your talent without giving away the shop.   Yet another prime opportunity to turn a situation to your advantage through negotiating. The story line in this sharp piece of commentary “Get Hired, Not Screwed: Avoid Being [...]

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Posted by Cait Clarke in Executive Women Negotiating, Job Bargaining, Personal Finance on April 23rd, 2012 | No Comments

Just Do It (With a Smile on Your Face)!

I wrote Dare to Ask to help women see how lots of things that impacted their quality of life—getting more from their money, having better relationships, feeling more secure and confident in their self-worth—could all be improved by knowing how to negotiate.  That’s still the fundamental point of the book. But whenever I get in [...]

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Posted by Cait Clarke in Uncategorized on April 20th, 2012 | No Comments

How to be a Powerful Woman

What makes a woman powerful?  That’s the question of the day.  And I must confess, Google wasn’t much help. I know that negotiating is one important route to power, but I was curious what bloggers were saying about the fundamental qualities that give a woman a sense of power.  The answer, alas: not much! A [...]

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Posted by Cait Clarke in Job Bargaining, negotiating women on April 4th, 2012 | No Comments

Must You Be a Bitch To Negotiate?

Does a woman have to be a bitch to be a good negotiator? A piece in Forbes.com  asks that million dollar question. Blogger and free-lance journalist Susannah Breslin, ever pithy and never at a loss for words, writes in her Pink Slipped column that “I’m good at what I do. Now I want the money [...]

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Posted by Cait Clarke in Executive Women Negotiating, Job Inequality, Job Satisfaction on March 15th, 2012 | No Comments

It’s A Labyrinth Not a Glass Ceiling, You Can Negotiate!

Turns out that the barrier to women advancing isn’t a glass ceiling after all but, rather, a labyrinth (whether or not it’s still invisible remains to be seen).  That’s the word from Wellesley College gender discrimination expert Linda Carli. The difference is more than just semantics.  And it bodes well for women negotiators who know [...]

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Posted by Cait Clarke in Uncategorized on March 9th, 2012 | No Comments

The ‘Entitlement Effect’ at Harvard Business School

Women leadership comes to Harvard Business School!  That citadel of establishment power along the shores of the Charles River in Cambridge, MA will host The Women’s Leadership Forum: Innovation Strategies for a Changing World from May 7-11, 2012.  It’s organized for women business leaders in profit or non-profit sector and, if history is a good [...]

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