Emilio J. Castilla, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stephen Benard, Indiana University published “The Paradox of Meritocracy in Organizations,” in the December 2010 issue of Administrative Science Quarterly. This article won the 2010 Academy of Management’s Best Paper Award in Organizational Behavior. “In this article, we develop and empirically test the theoretical argument that when […]
Tag Archive | "Career Management"
Are people your greatest asset? Then your executive and board must include people expertise, and that probably means more women
Posted on 11 November 2011.
I have a question: if people really are the greatest asset in any business (as many would say), why is it that HR professionals are paid less than those who manage the financial, property and operational assets of almost any business? Why do the so-called “soft skills” and “support roles” harbor less pay, promotional prospects […]
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More than 25 percent of Australian employees believe their employer would choose a man over an equally qualified woman
Posted on 03 November 2011.
HR firm Randstad recently conducted a survey of approximately 400 Australian workers and found that only 40% of the male respondents say their employers, when looking for new managers, take into account the current number of men and women in higher management positions, compared to 25% of female respondents. Randstad chief executive Fred van der […]
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Women Make Excellent Entrepreneurs in the Digital Age – and this is why!
Posted on 03 November 2011.
This article by Nellie Akalp tells us what we already know about women entrepreurs: they are thriving in the new economy and this is why: The growth in women-owned businesses can partly be attributed to sheer necessity: increasingly, families must rely on a dual-income household and many women find escape constraints of paid employment by […]
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Wealth advice for women: delaying having children will boost your pay by 9 per cent per year
Posted on 13 October 2011.
The link between parenting and pay has been demonstrated in a study that shows postponing motherhood leads to an increase in women’s earnings of 9% per year of delay, according to Amalia R. Miller of the University of Virginia. As you might expect, the wage advantage was largest for college-educated women who have the potential […]
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“Mother guilt” at work… why I loath this term and why it’s time to do away with it!
Posted on 13 October 2011.
It could be just my interpretation, but I loath the term “mother guilt”. It seems to me that labels like this do nothing to support the self-confidence of mothers – and it’s certainly not a draw card for career-minded women deciding whether and when to embark on parenting. My sentiment was evoked when, speaking at […]
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