“Women can’t win.” This is one of the conclusions reached by Lisa Belkin, a writer for the New York Times, in her recent article “The Feminine Critique.” After reading the article, you may well agree, particularly when you consider her analysis about how differently men and women are viewed in the workplace, even when behaving […]
Global warming and the pollution of the planet are creating a fundamental challenge to the achievement of sustainable development for the majority of the world’s inhabitants. In response to this challenge, politicians are developing and implementing policies to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and to foster environmentally safe business solutions. Fascinating new investment opportunities are being […]
This posting is one in a series of our Expert Answers, where a thorny problem is posed in the form of a question, for one of our Glass Hammer resident experts to answer and explain the issue to our readers. Caroline Doran, an employment law specialist with Rooks Rider Solicitors in London, has been providing […]
This is a story of two women. In New York, a successful young woman in finance spends her days at a major investment bank structuring billion dollar loans to finance telecom deals. In Calcutta, a poor young woman who spends her days as a street sweeper takes out a $50 loan to buy enough supplies […]
With the Women on Wall Street (WOWS) conference still fresh in my head, I started thinking about the professional metamorphosis I have made in the past year. One marker of this change is a Meet the Press event that a respectable Chicago newspaper coordinates annually. Last year I walked in wearing a suit to camouflage […]
The Duke Alumni Association and Duke Club of New York will partner with Women@Work, LLC, to sponsor a seminar especially for women. Branding Strategies for Returning Professionals will address the question of women returning to the work force, and the repackaging of their skills and experiences in such a way that employers see “that they […]
These days, it’s easy to watch the news and get depressed. War, natural disasters, and human rights abuses abound every time you turn on the TV, and its easy to just tune out all of the suffering going on around you, head to an air-conditioned office and surround yourself with comfortingly well-dressed people whose biggest […]
Graphic:personneltoday Most women over the age of 18 working in the UK earn less than their male colleagues in the same jobs. Unfortunately, it does not look like this will change any time soon. According to a report issued by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) in July 2007, it will take 200 years for there […]
Last night on London’s Liverpool Street, there was a glamorous gathering of designer bags and stiletto heels, all assembled with their occupants at the Financial News 100 Most Influential Women in the City Awards. The Great Eastern Hotel boasted a gathering of ladies sporting mainly black and navy suits (both skirt and pants variety), with […]
Though women have made great strides in the workplace in recent decades, there is still a disturbingly significant gap between the earnings of men and women in the same jobs. In both the US and the UK, independent juducial bodies have been created to address claims of pay disparity. However, the pay gap issue is […]