"Let’s declare a ceasefire in the ‘War on Women.’ The language of division may make for good politics, but I have yet to see it make for good policies or good results. Instead, let’s mobilize what I’m calling a 'War FOR Women.’"-
Linda McMahon, Co-founder and former CEO, WWE; 2012 Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Connecticut
Forget the War on Women: Let’s Declare a War FOR Women (Huffington Post)
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New research has uncovered a shocking gender pay gap, with male managers earning average bonuses twice as big as female counterparts.
Male managers were paid an average bonus of £6,442 last year compared with £3,029 for women, on top of basic salaries almost 25% bigger.
There’s a big gender gap in CEO pay. Bad negotiating isn’t the reason. (Washington Post)
Other research has shown that when employers evaluate workers for promotions, women tend to be considered on the basis of their performance, while men are often promoted for their potential.
"It’s a combination of the drive that women have always had in guiding their own destinies and the economic situation that actually encouraged them to start their own businesses."-
Ana Recio Harvey, director of the Small Business Administration’s (SBAs) Office of Women’s Business Ownership and a former small-business owner
How Entrepreneurship Is Creating New Opportunities For Women (Forbes)
‘Mini-Me’ With High Heels of Her Own (New York Times)
“You’re basically giving the green light to expediting childhood and going full speed on to womanhood,” Ms. Cannova said. “Childhood is over soon enough as it is.”
"All three women were also given copies of Seducing the Boys Club, a career-advice-for-women book that recommended flirting, flattery, “playing on [a man’s] masculine pride and natural instincts to protect the weaker sex” and reinforcing “his hunk status.”"-
Claire Suddath
Hey Merrill Lynch, It’s Not a Good Idea to Tell Women to ‘Seduce the Boys’ Club’ (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Olivia Wilde, RYOT Launch Health Workers Campaign (The Daily Beast)
The campaign is working to train, equip, and deploy 1 million community health workers on the ground in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015 to meet urgent medical needs and reach the health-related Millennium Development Goals
"We had to make the fight […] They are looking to see what initiatives there are that really do help them beyond the rhetoric of wanting to have an economy that lifts everyone in our society including women. No, they want something very specific. Women have to see that there is a path, there is an initiative."- Nancy Pelosi says it’s time to fight for women in the economy, making more than a few good points in an interview with TP’s Bryce Covert. (via think-progress)
"If I walk into a room with a male junior colleague, the customer will assume he’s the managing director and I am the secretary. This happens regularly."-
Ameera Shah, managing director and chief executive of Metropolis Healthcare Ltd.
Read Women at Work: Metropolis Healthcare’s CEO at The Wall Street Journal
Janet Yellen (Federal Reserve/Flickr)
The subtle, sexist whispering campaign against Janet Yellen
“What the complaints share is an implicit definition of leadership based on stereotypically male qualities. They aren’t qualities that all men have, or all women lack, but they’re qualities that tend to be more rewarded in men than in women, and thus more prevalent among men than women.”
- Ezra Klein, The Washington Post
According to a new report from the National Women’s Law Center.The unemployment rate for Black women currently stands at 12 percent, compared to 11.8 percent in June 2009. It is nearly 1.7 times higher than the rate before the crash.
Wage Drop May Disproportionately Impact Women In Female-Dominated Occupations
While the study found that real wages have dropped by 2.8 percent on average across all occupations, five of the 10 largest low-wage job categories experienced a drop of 5 percent or more. Women make up nearly two-thirds of all minimum wage workers and dominate the categories hit the hardest. They make up between 83-87 percent of home health and personal care aid workers, 85 percent of maids and housekeeping cleaners and 70 percent of food-service workers.
Duke Energy, the nation’s largest electric power holding company, announced last week that Lynn Good would become its new CEO. This brings the number of female Fortune 500 CEOs to a whopping 22 – still just 4.4 percent of the total. Ever wonder what that looks like?
Emily Nemens did. Women CEOs pictured (and hand-painted): Margaret Whitman, Indry Nooyi, Ursula Burns, Marissa Mayer.
reports Thomson Reuters, in a new study titled “The Professional Revolution.” According to the study:
Happy 50th Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act! (sort of). Here are some sobering visuals: For every dollar earned by a white man in America, a white woman earns, on average, 77 cents, a black woman earns 69 cents, and a Latina woman earns 57 cents. (Infographic by the lovely Emily Nemens for LeanIn.Org.)