Job Inequality | Women Negotiating

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 [...]

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 [...]

Posted by Cait Clarke in Executive Women Negotiating, Job Inequality, Male vs. Female, Women in Leadership on October 26th, 2011 | No Comments

Diversity Management Training for Women Pays Off Says McKinsey & Company

Gender diversity a corporate performance driver? The bluer-than-blue chip consultants at McKinsey & Company think so. Especially in Europe where women generally remain excluded from the upper strata of management (with the notable exception of the Scandinavian countries). The argument for implementing corporate diversity management programs for women—including negotiation training—grows stronger. In the report Women [...]

Posted by admin in Job Bargaining, Job Inequality, Male vs. Female on September 9th, 2011 | No Comments

Even Today, Women In First Post-Grad Jobs Get Paid Less Than Men

In promoting Dare to Ask! we hear a recurring theme from the first generation of feminists that younger women, say under 40, figure the gender game has been won and that they no longer have to play. They think that bias doesn’t apply to them, that the world is post-feminist and gender neutral. Success or [...]

Posted by admin in Female Psychology, Job Bargaining, Job Inequality, Male vs. Female, negotiating women, Reluctance to Negotiate, Women Professionals on September 2nd, 2011 | No Comments

Negotiating Your First Salary- From the Cluttered Desk of Erin

Just the other day I read about a study that claimed to show that people with demonstrably “messy” desks were less likely to be promoted than their neater peers. For those of you who know me, I was understandably crushed. The funny thing was, I was reading this study on my phone. I had picked [...]

Posted by admin in Female Psychology, Job Inequality, Male vs. Female, Tactics on August 16th, 2011 | No Comments

What NOT to Do

For women to be effective negotiators, it is not enough for them to overcome their various inhibitions (such as the need to be liked, a proclivity to avoid potential conflict, the assumption that the other side will naturally do ‘what is fair and right’). Additionally, they must learn tools and tactics particular to them as [...]

Posted by Neil Shister in Executive Women Negotiating, Job Bargaining, Job Inequality on April 28th, 2011 | No Comments

IT’S THE ‘SOFT’ STUFF THAT HOLDS WOMEN BACK

Why do women top-out at middle management? McKinsey & Co. thinks a big reason is they lack “soft” support. Without social capital, it’s tough to advance. Here’s ideas about how to get some.

Posted by Neil Shister in Executive Women Negotiating, Job Bargaining, Job Inequality on March 4th, 2011 | No Comments

WOMEN STILL EARN 25% LESS THAN MEN!

White House report confirms the income differential gap is alive and well. Why? In part because of the professions women work in, in part because they don’t dare to push back.