A research team at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School released a new study that shows, "women are less willing to sacrifice ethical values for money and social status and that women associate business with immorality more strongly," CNN reports. The research involved three separate studies with a main element focusing on a series of fictitious job descriptions … [Read more...]
Women on Boards – Leading Companies of Silicon Valley
Which companies in Silicon Valley have the most women on boards? That's the question Bryce Druzen answered yesterday on the Silicon Valley Business Journal website. Not surprisingly, Druzen found that only 16.9% of Silicon Valley companies have women corporate board members. You can see how the companies in the tech capitol of the United States rank below and get all of … [Read more...]
The Ties That Bind
In the past year I have found myself talking about partnership an awful lot. As one partnership crashed and burned this week and several other began, here is some advice I have learned. Understand your value When you are starting out I don’t care how much you think you know, you don’t know as much as someone with 10 years of experience on you. If you don’t have all of the … [Read more...]
Gender Wage Gap in Engineering Driven by Professional Culture
The gender wage gap in engineering is caused by cultural ideologies in the engineering profession according to research by Rice University Assistant Professor Erin Cech, Ph.D. The report was published by Oxford University Press in partnership with the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and first appeared in Social Forces, a leading … [Read more...]
Statistics Mislead, but Your Paycheck Doesn’t Lie: End Gender Pay Gap by Starting Your Own Business
Guest post by David Anderson (learn more about the author at the end of the article): March was Women's History Month, a 31-day celebration of the strides females have made in the workplace. But as April settles in and tax time forces Americans to review their income, women may not feel much like cheering. Because they'll discover that, on average, a man makes more after … [Read more...]
The Rules of Engagement
In business, relationships are everything. It’s who you know that can help you get where you want to be and all that hard work will come to fruition on that magical moment when you meet the right person at the right time in the right place. Until that time the most meaningful relationship you can have is taking care of yourself as a CEO and here's how you do it. Reward … [Read more...]
Room at the Table
What do you do when a new project manager starts at the firm? Do you welcome them with open arms? Do you slightly hesitate? Or do you close your office door… and plot their demise? If you’re human, you probably will think of all three at some point in your career. But if you can push your ego aside, you’ll find that the new kid on the block (experienced or otherwise), … [Read more...]
Condoleeza Rice, Indra Nooyi and the Glass Ceiling – Flashback
In October 2008, I published an article here on Women on Business titled "Condoleeza Rice and Indra Nooyi Talk about Women, Business, and the Glass Ceiling." In today's look back at the Women on Business archives, you'll see how right these women were in their insights at the time and how little progress has actually been made over the past five years in closing the business … [Read more...]
Top Women on Wall Street [Infographic]
Who are the women on top on Wall Street? Unfortunately, there aren't many of them, but you can see who's who in the top positions of Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America in a handy infographic from The New York Times. The infographic shows prominent women on Wall Street as well as a breakdown of gender disparity at each company. … [Read more...]
The Individual and Organizational Imperative to Do Good
"The secret to individual and organizational success hinges on our ability to do good. Doing good means creating value for others." That insightful quote comes from leadership expert Irene Becker of Just Coach It, and those are words to live by in our personal lives and our professional lives. Irene explains that "doing good" embodies a variety of parts and pieces. We … [Read more...]