Posted on 14 October 2009. Tags: Gender Balance, Sexual discrimination, Supporting women worldwide, The Glass Ceiling
THE GLASS CEILING DILEMMA: 44 PER CENT OF WOMEN BELIEVE THEY HAVE BEEN OVERLOOKED FOR PROMOTION DUE TO THEIR SEX, YET 27 PER CENT HAVE TURNED DOWN A PROMOTION DUE TO LACK OF CONFIDENCE Survey results released today by sphinxx (sphinxx.com.au), a community dedicated to advancing women as leaders in business, revealed that 44 per […]
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Posted on 09 September 2009. Tags: Family Motherhood and Home, Gender Balance, Life Balance, Management and Leadership
A study of 288 employed American adults published in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology^ found that more women than men felt they did not meet their own high standards either at work or at home. 38% of women and 24% of men said their job performance did not meet their own standards. 30% […]
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Posted on 27 August 2009. Tags: Gender Balance, Quotas, Supporting women worldwide, Women on boards, working women
Women on Boards is currently conducting the Gender Diversity on Australian Boards Survey. The purpose of the survey is to explore the experience of members of the Women on Boards network who are on a board or committee and determine their attitudes to setting targets or quotas for gender representation.You are invited to respond to […]
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Posted on 18 August 2009. Tags: Flexibility at Work, Gender Balance, working women
For those of you who are golfers (and I know many of you are!)…. Did you know that researchers at the University of New Mexico have identified a link between the placement of women’s tees on golf courses and their professional success.The farther apart men’s and women’s tees are in a region, they found, the fewer women […]
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Posted on 20 January 2009. Tags: Bias & stereotypes, Career Management, Gender Balance, Supporting women worldwide, worklifebalance
This is a great discussion by Harvard academic Sylvia Ann Hewlett on the continuing gender divide in technology ranks.Excerpt:Women, it turns out, are excelling in science, engineering, and technology (SET). In 2007, girls won both the Siemens and Intel science competitions and walked off with 53% of graduate degrees in the biological sciences. Despite the […]
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Posted on 16 January 2009. Tags: Career Management, Flexibility at Work, Gender Balance, Supporting women worldwide, Women in Leadership, working women
Researchers at the University of New Mexico have identified a link between the placement of women’s tees on golf courses and their professional success. The farther apart men’s and women’s tees are in a region, they found, the fewer women there will be in sales management, general management, and marketing positions in the region and […]
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