Tag Archives: women
Marketing By Gender
Catching up on TED Talks, I recently heard Johanna Blakley speak about how social media will end gender as we know it. Blakley’s hypothesis is that new media offers marketers the ability to segment in radically different ways, making traditional … Continue reading
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Using Our Purchasing Power To Get Real Power
There is a wonderfully optimistic article in this week’s Newsweek about demographic and workforce shifts that are leading women to have significantly greater purchasing power than men. This is good news for many reasons, but two big ones are that … Continue reading
Filed under Management, News, Politics, Work
Helping Women Take Risks
Over the past few months Deborah Spar, president of Barnard College and former professor at Harvard Business School, has been promoting the idea that if there had been more women on Wall Street, the financial crisis could have been averted. … Continue reading
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The Maternal Manager
Last week a friend who is a female senior healthcare executive in her early sixties told me the following story: one of her employees, a woman in her mid-twenties, came to her and said she wanted to pursue a master’s … Continue reading
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Management Friday: Can Women Lead With Kindness?
A recent article in The American Lawyer titled The End of Sisterhood cites a survey by the American Bar Association indicating a majority of female lawyers under 40 prefer to work for a man. This on the heels of the two … Continue reading
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Diversity and Women in the Workplace: New Report from Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young has just released a new report called Groundbreakers: Using the Strength of Women to Rebuild the World’s Economy. Concurrently, Jim Turley, CEO of E&Y, wrote this piece in the Wall Street Journal about why firms need more diverse voices … Continue reading
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The Young Mothers of Capitol Hill in the Philadelpha Inquirer
This article in the Philadelphia Inquirer raises some interesting issues about mothers entering politics. It sounds like it could be a hard gig. On the other hand, the article doesn’t mention that most women in politics can afford to have high-quality, full-time … Continue reading
Filed under Famous Working Mothers, Politics, Work
