In reading Sway by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman, I found a study that was compelling enough to share. As a sales and marketing professional hearing studies like this continues to dissappoint me. I want to communicate objectively ...READ»
In the west, we’re spoiled. Women are an integral part of society,
running board rooms, Fortune 500 companies, households, raising
children; often doing everything (or more) that their male counterparts
do. In much of the rest of ...READ»
As merchants go, it's hard not to admire ... Lord & Taylor.
Lord & Taylor? The old-fashioned department store? The place for frumpy ladies who lunch and tea? The retailer that was basically sold for parts to financier ...READ»
According to a recent article by the BBC(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7337145.stm), Italy has one of the lowest rates of female employment in the European Union, with only 46 percent of women holding jobs.
That amounts ...READ»
Technology companies have made strides to create more diverse work environments and women have less barriers to advancement than they did a decade a ago, according to a survey conducted earlier this month by Catalyst, a New York-based ...READ»
Though many more women are taking leadership positions on Wall Street and Congress, and an increasing number of women are starting their own businesses, many Generation Y women do not want to take on the traditional idea of ...READ»
A recent survey entitled Workplace Insights, showed that while almost all American workers believe that women have made important strides in business over the past ten years, 86 percent surveyed still felt the glass ceiling was very ...READ»
The construction business was once hostile at best to women in the field. Many women suffered sexual harassment and pressures from their male counterparts to leave the job. Around 1980, the government began cracking down on the ...READ»
The sales industry is an intricate profession where people must focus on how they should sell themselves and their products or services. Women can have a particularly difficult time with this, as Stephanie Szklarski, a sales ...READ»
The Georgia Association for Women Lawyers recently released a new survey entitled IT'S ABOUT TIME II: Examining Flexible Work Arrangements from the Attorney's and the Firm's Perspective - A Study of Part-time Policies in Georgia Law ...READ»
It seems that workplaces and women have been talking about how to manage a family and a career for years now, and yet there still seems to be no one clear cut answer. That perhaps is because there likely is no magical answer like ...READ»
Today's blogpost is inspired by Today's Big Idea. "Women shouldn't downplay femininity in the office; they should use it as an asset." This quote was taken from “What Southern Women Know (That Every Woman Should): Timeless ...READ»
In starting this blog, I wanted to make sure that I offered coverage of women in business that was not being offered elsewhere. One suggestion about this coverage came from Gail Evans, former executive vice president of CNN and ...READ»
Back in July, I went to Chicago to attend the 3rd Annual BlogHer Conference to moderate a panel, "Privacy, Exposure, Risk: Can you maintain safer spaces online?" BlogHer is a community for and guide to blogs by women, as well as an ...READ»
