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Sexist men earn higher salaries
September 24, 2008
A new study has found that men with traditional views of gender roles earn nearly $12,000 more than men and with egalitarian attitudes – and nearly $15,000 more than women. The study also found that more educated men tended to be more accepting of equality in gender roles, while the less educated clung to the sexist view. So sexists have more money, but aren’t as bright. In all seriousness, study co-author Beth Livingston told me that while conducting her press tour, Fox News ran out of time before she could get to that point. Learn more about why sexists make more money and what you can do to even the score.
Women entrepreneurs are "it"
August 06, 2008
Although women are starting businesses at twice the rate of the national average, the reality is that companies with women CEOs only attracted a paltry 2.9% of available venture funding last year, according to VentureOne, a subsidiary of Dow Jones, down from 4.52% in 2006. In fact, this percentage has dropped nearly every year from a high-point of 7.55% in 2002. To get behind why women-owned businesses have received so little venture funding, we talked to Sharon Vosmek, CEO of Astia (www.astia.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting women-led companies with access to equity funding, achieving and maintaining high growth, and leadership mentoring. To be fundable, a business must show a significant growth opportunity – and here’s where Vosmek says women literally fall short, as they tend to be much more conservative on their estimates of market opportunity than their male counterparts. Learn why.
A culture of cowards
August 03, 2008
Female business blogger gets death threats for negative comments about batman movie.
An entrepreneur and business blogger for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, one of Seattle’s daily newspapers, recently wrote an admittedly frivolous post comparing the movie Batman the Dark Knight to risks in a business venture. In mere hours, fans of the movie cyber-attacked her for the “negative review”, one with such aggressive hate as to wish her gang-raped and shot. We have created a culture of cowards, those who hide behind the anonymous comment. The media used to castigate such cyber-bullying behavior - until its publishers also got seduced by the web traffic such comments help generate. Here are some tips to protect yourself from cyber-bullies if you're not 100% sure they'll kee their presence limited to cyberspace.
Sisters are doing it for themselves
July 23, 2008
Statistics show that women have been backsliding with regard to pay, board seats and corporate officer posts over the past 3 years. The assumed reason is that more women are dropping out of the workforce to become moms - But it seems the real reason is they're choosing to work for themselves -
Why is a woman’s appearance fair game?
July 22, 2008
It isn’t news that the media has consistently commented on women’s appearance, but why do women dis other women this way?
Insurance companies should be forced to cover birth control
July 12, 2008
Most insurance company prescription drug plans cover Viagra - but not necessarily cover birth control. The senate voted down an attempt to make prescription coverage of birth control mandatory so it would be treated like pretty much any other prescription drug - John McCain voted against it. Watch this video showing a reporter asking him to explain why.
There is no sexism on wall street
June 02, 2008
A recent post on the Wall Street gossip site Dealbreaker.com misuses and abuses recent research to conclude that the reason there are few women on Wall Street, especially in its senior ranks, is simply because we choose not to be there. If ever there was “proof” of the irrationality of women, leaving these solid high-paying jobs because we simply “choose to do something else” must be it.
