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Posted by Neil Shister in Job Inequality, Job Satisfaction, Male vs. Female on September 28th, 2010 | No Comments

‘Working Mothers Just Aren’t Tough Enough to Manage’

Yet again the gender gap rears its ugly face. This time it’s the Feds weighing in via the Government Accountability Office. The GAO, in Congressional testimony, reported that women make up just 40 percent of this country’s managerial ranks (in 10 years, since 2000, that number has risen by 1 … yes, 1 !!! percent).  [...]

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Posted by admin in Job Inequality, Male vs. Female, Tactics on May 17th, 2010 | No Comments

A Toolkit for Women Seeking a Raise

Great tips for women on negotiating from Harvard guru, Hannah Riley Bowles, in the New York Times over the week-end.  Also lots of readers comments with their own advice. Hannah’s goal is to help women overcome job inequalities through negotiation.  No doubt about that inequality: women earn 77 cents for every dollar men do.  Even [...]

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Posted by Neil Shister in Job Inequality, Male vs. Female on May 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Biggest Sex Discrimination Case in History?

A massive multi-million dollar class action suit in behalf of Wal-Mart’s women workers has been approved to proceed in late April and testifies to long-standing grievance of women in the workplace. The essence of the lawsuit argues that female as many as 1.6 million current and former female workers were paid less and received fewer [...]

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