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 Is discrimination and lesser opportunity for women as deeply ingrained in our society as many lobby groups claim or is it a simple fact of life that men and women are different and have differing priorities in life and at work? But while many talented women feel sidelined by the rigidity of traditional career paths, is the plethora of legislation aimed at helping and promoting women in the workplace actually having the opposite effect? USEFUL LINKS |
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Essential ReadingWomen view 'corporate game' with disdain
Fat salaries, fast cars and "playing the corporate game" are of little or no interest to ambitious senior business women. What they look for are companies with an inclusive culture.
A new blueprint for business
The current recession offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to shift the dynamic of the workplace from one that is inherently masculine to one where there is a more balanced collaboration of the masculine and the feminine within us all.
Women squeezed out of organisational life
The battle to break through the glass ceiling into the boardroom leaves many women negative, worn down and disillusioned that they are not being used to their full potential.
Female brain-drain "a myth"
The "hidden brain-drain" of women opting out of the U.S. workforce to spend more time with their kids is a myth, a new report has claimed. Instead, the real reason for the decline in the number of working women is the overall weakness of the labour market.
Why do women in business sell themselves short?
Even professional women with discretion over the amount they charge for their work tend to ask for less than men. But while this might suggest that they are doing themselves a disservice, new research suggests that the opposite may be true.
Women do best in women-led companies
A new study has found that women executives in the U.S. working in women-led firms earn between 15 and 20 per cent more in total compensation than women working in other firms.
Women less prepared to sacrifice everything to reach the top
It isn't discrimination that is stopping women getting into the boardroom, a new survey has suggested. They just aren't prepared to make the sacrifices needed to get there.
Rules of the game for corporate women
Why do so many women struggle with "being political"? They possess all the skills they need to succeed in the political arena – but all too often, no-one has taught them the rules of the game. So here's a crash course in how to play the game without becoming a man in a skirt.
More senior women needed, now
The dominance of a male, macho, risk-taking business culture is at the heart of the world's economic woes – and knee-jerk rescue plans may be making things even worse.
Latest on Women and the WorkplaceThe wrong background?Mary has recently been promoted into a senior role within an all-male technical team. But with a background in sales, her colleagues seem to have little respect for her opinions and criticize her for a lack of technical knowledge. What can she do?
Women directors 'hounding' CEOs into falling profitabilityCompanies embracing diversity and increasing the number of women at board level may be heading for a profit slump if they already have good governance structures in place, a leading academic has warned.
Diversity needs to be about men, tooUnless they involve men in their gender equality efforts, organisations will never reap the full benefits of having workplaces that are truly diverse.
Women held back in the workplace at all levelsNew research argues that even in the best-intentioned organisations, women get less access to mentoring, fast-track development and international postings than their male colleagues.
Exodus of women could reinforce banking glass ceilingThe recession could reverse the progress made by big banks in the past few years in bringing women into senior positions - because women themselves are using the downturn to step off the corporate treadmill.
Coaching through glass ceilingBetter coaching by senior management and encouraging women to aspire to board-level positions can make a big difference in helping to shatter the glass ceiling.
An MBA no use for women?The MBA has long cherished its reputation for helping ambitious high-flyers get on the career fast-track. But according to new research, that's only true if those high-flyers happen to be men.
Talent management: just for menGetting to the top can be hard enough for any women. But it's made all the harder because many talent management programmes are inherently biased against them.
Interview stereotyping undermines womenWomen applying for senior positions can face an interview Catch-22. Come across as competent but modest and risk being over-looked. Come across as ambitious and competitive and get labeled as difficult.
Female executives earn more than menOnce they break through the glass ceiling, female managers progress just as fast as their male colleagues and receive higher compensation packages. The tricky part is breaking through in the first place.
Downturn could make glass ceiling even thickerGlobal recession could make it even harder for women to break into the boardroom, even though we might be in less of a mess now if more women had been in charge in the first place.
Gender pay gap nothing to do with discriminationIt's an argument unlikely to win many friends among equality campaigners, but men earn more money than women not because of discrimination, but because they make different lifestyle choices.
Women: an untapped talentModels of effective leadership are still based on men and the types of talents that they bring to such positions. So to tap into the talents that women bring to the workplace, our ideas about leadership need to be reexamined.
UK glass ceiling shows few signs of shatteringThe UK's glass ceiling remains as thick as ever, with women holding just a tenth of top directorships and unlikely to achieve parity with men for at least the next 73 years.
Why women still are second class in the workplaceYou'd be hard pressed today to find a boardroom that does not spin a good line on gender equality. It's just a shame words aren't matched by deeds.
It really is a man's worldWomen, you're not being paranoid (or hysterical). The workplace really is a big boys' club where the men get promoted faster and the women barely get a look in.
Accountancy glass ceiling as thick as everA background in accountancy is one of the best launch pads there is for getting to the top in business. The problem is that it is still a profession largely closed to women at senior level.
Female entrepreneurs have it tougher than menIt's hard enough for women to climb the corporate ladder, but female entrepreneurs also suffer from a gender gap when it comes to owning and starting up their own businesses.
Why Women Mean Business WebinarThe first ever Management Issues Webinar, "Why Women Mean Business", took place on March 14th 2008. Watch and listen to the proceedings here.
Western women less confident of management successWomen in emerging economies such as India, China and Brazil feel better equipped to succeed in the global economy than do their counterparts in the West.
Goldman funds business education for third-world womenA multi-million dollar initiative by a U.S. bank is set to preach the virtues of good management and business skills to women in developing nations.
Female board members just as experienced as menThe notion that women bring less experience to the boardroom table than their male counterparts is nonsense, a new study has suggested.
Boardroom equality as far away as everEurope's boardrooms are still stubbornly male, with women making up fewer than a tenth of board-level positions, a disparity that could take almost 60 years to resolve.
Thumbs down for insensitive women bossesMale managers who are perceived as unkind and insensitive are not considered to be worse bosses as a result. But woe betide a woman who displays the same behaviour.
Gender pay gap from graduation to boardroomGraduates and board directors may be at opposite ends of the career spectrum but one thing unites them – the gender pay gap.
Female thinking shapes the workplaceCollaborative, female thinking is replacing traditional "male" work practices at all levels of corporate life as the feminisation of the workplace accelerates.
Glass labyrinth, not glass ceilingIt isn't so much a glass ceiling stopping women from making it to the top of the business world as a much more convoluted and corrosive labyrinth of obstacles.
More women on the board leads to better resultsFortune 500 companies with more women on their boards achieve significantly better financial performance than those that are male-dominated, new research has revealed.
Burden of bureaucracy leads employers to shun womenThere's more evidence that the ever-increasing burden of bureaucracy is leading employers in Britain to shun women.
More women step off the career ladderThe number of high-flying British female managers stepping off the corporate treadmill or simply looking for a change of direction is at its highest level for half a decade.
Legislation making women less employableLegislation introduced earlier this year in the UK to boost maternity rights for women has only resulted in women becoming less employable – particularly as far as small and medium-sized employers are concerned.
Gender gap to remain for generationsA child born today will have reached pensionable age before there is a balance of women and men in Britain's boardrooms, a study by the UK's Equal Opportunities Commission claims.
Why women are doomed to failureIt's hard enough for women to scale the heights in business, but even when they do they are faced with a range of "double-bind" contradictions that make it almost impossible for them to be truly successful.
Discrimination rampant in U.S. workplacesA quarter of women in the U.S claim to have experienced discrimination at work, with almost one fifth saying they have been harassed by a fellow employee or manager.
Women should pay less taxWomen should be taxed at a lower rate than men to help more of them into work and reduce the gender pay gap, according to two American economists.
I want a life, too!Amy doesn't yet have children, but she still wants a life. But why is all the focus on work-life balance always just about mothers? Why can't organizations realize that non-parents have work-life challenges, too?
I want a life, too!Amy doesn't yet have children, but she still wants a life. But why is all the focus on work-life balance always just about mothers? Why can't organizations realize that non-parents have work-life challenges, too?
Mind the gapAlmost half the managers in U.S. companies are women. Yet when it comes to the most senior posts, men outnumber the women by almost six to one, while at all levels, women consistently earn less than men. But why?
Opportunities for women in Asian put UK to shameWomen in south and eastern Asian countries are more likely to break through the boardroom glass ceiling than their contemporaries in Britain, despite the UK devoting vast sums to promoting diversity and gender equality.
Women shunning British boardroomsThe number of British women in senior roles has fallen by almost 40 per cent in the past five years as they either abandon the struggle to juggle family and career or quit to start up their own businesses.
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