Jun 30, 2016 | Confidence Gap, Entrepreneurs, Work
“Wanted – successful women entrepreneurs running fast-growing companies”. You would think that an advert like this would have hordes of women making contact wouldn’t you? Well, that’s not the case.
A few years ago I was involved in an initiative whose target market was women entrepreneurs running fast-growth companies. My role was to find these businesses to see how they could be supported in raising capital, and gaining access to mentors to help them during their growth journey. However, the problem was that we could not find many women who identified with this description. The traditional advertising routes were not working, so I set out to check if the lack of interest meant that they actually didn’t exist.
What I discovered surprised me. There were many women who had ambitious growth plans and whose businesses were generating annual revenues well in excess of £250,000 – but they did not categorise themselves as a “fast growth company”. In fact, it took a little time during the conversations for them to recognise how successful they actually were.”
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Jan 18, 2016 | Confidence Gap, Corporate, Economic Security, Occupational Segregation, Political, Salary & Compensation, Talent Management, Wage Gap, Work, Workplace Diversity
According to our status report: In VT, median annual income for women working FT is $37K – $7K less than men. This translates into a wage gap of 16% – or 16 cents on every dollar earned by a man.
“The gap cannot be entirely explained by anything economists can measure — workers’ education and experience, the jobs they choose, the hours they work or the time they take off. That leaves other factors that are hard to quantify, like discrimination or women’s perception of the choices available to them.
So what might work to close the gap? Social scientists and policy makers have some ideas, as do companies that have been trying to combat the problem in their work force.”
[x_button shape=”square” size=”regular” float=”none” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/upshot/how-to-bridge-that-stubborn-pay-gap.html” title=”How to Bridge That Stubborn Pay Gap” target=”blank” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover”]Read the full article.[/x_button]
Dec 30, 2015 | Confidence Gap, Corporate, Economic Security, Education, Entrepreneurs, Leadership, Media, Mentoring, Non-profit, Occupational Segregation, Political, Retirement, Role of Men, Salary & Compensation, STEM, Talent Management, Wage Gap, Women of Color/Visible Minorities, Work, Workplace Diversity
A “Knowledge Center” filled with reports, infographics, recorded webinars, etc. relevant to the workplace diversity, corporate governance, men, sponsorship/mentoring, women in leadership, etc.
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Dec 30, 2015 | Confidence Gap, Corporate, Economic Security, Education, Entrepreneurs, Leadership, Media, Mentoring, Non-profit, Occupational Segregation, Political, Retirement, Salary & Compensation, STEM, Talent Management, Wage Gap, Women of Color/Visible Minorities, Work, Workplace Diversity
McKinsey’s new report, “Women Matter 2013: Moving corporate culture, moving boundaries,” focuses on mindsets and corporate culture to help companies understand how they can make change happen.
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Dec 30, 2015 | Confidence Gap, Education, Media, Mentoring, Occupational Segregation, STEM
Two studies say more women would study math and science in college if there were more female math and science teachers in high school.
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Dec 29, 2015 | Confidence Gap, Corporate, Economic Security, Education, Entrepreneurs, Leadership, Media, Mentoring, Non-profit, Occupational Segregation, Political, Retirement, Role of Men, Salary & Compensation, STEM, Talent Management, Wage Gap, Women of Color/Visible Minorities, Work, Workplace Diversity
With its Gender Action Portal, the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School provides scientific evidence—based on experiments in the field and in the laboratory—on the impact of policies, strategies and organizational practices aimed at closing gender gaps in the areas of economic opportunity, politics, health, and education to help translate research into action and take successful interventions to scale.
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