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Will You Add? - Why Women Earn Less, and How to Avoid the Gender Trap
A paycheck calculator promises to relieve at least one part of a company’s payroll gripes. A paycheck calculator does the payroll computations, deductions and filing for any business.Paycheck calculators are to found online, and claim to be able to eliminate delays, save money and help companies to be in control of their payroll processing. Moreover, these online paycheck calculators provide highly advanced computational features that include the printing of paychecks. There are a variety of calculators, all offering a unique range of functions.The paycheck calculator calculates an individual’s net pay, which essentially amounts to earnings after taxes have been
The good news is that by peer-mentoring in groups, far more progress is made, more quickly. Certainly we’ve noted that whenever we’ve provided the environment for such mentoring the outcomes in terms of personal and professional development, and the doors that have so quickly and freely opened, have been outstanding.
Working with a mentor or mentors needn’t take a lot of time, and can even be done on-line so that you can participate no matter where you are, all in the convenience of your own time and at your own computer.
“Business networking” has been misunderstood and undervalued
This activity has been identified as the single most effect
If there is one area of call centre activity which has been hit harder than other sectors of the call centre industry then it must be B2C telemarketing. In 2004, CM-Insight’s Mike Havard predicted the death of the cold call within 5 years unless companies changed their actions. Despite the doom and gloom over the last few years, we are now starting to see the resurgence of outbound. However, it has now transformed and is smaller and cleverer. Prospects are targeted more accurately, the agents speaking to them are more professional and the message being delivered is far more in tune with the individual needs. We examine the chequered history of B2C outbound and look at what
In civilised countries around the world, equal pay has been enshrined in law for over 40 years. Yet even today women in professions are being paid roughly 75 cents for every dollar men receive, for the same work!
Over a lifetime of work, a woman can expect to lose about $455,000 due to unequal pay. That’s why women have less to set aside for their future, and why they struggle to build up solid asset bases. That’s also why women receive smaller superannuation payouts. Astoundingly, by the time a woman retires, her superannuation pension will be only about 50% of the average man’s!
Why it’s Not Just a Women’s Issue
This inequity in payment rates doesn’t just disadvantage women--it also disadvantages their children and their partners. When women are not paid what they are worth, their whole family suffers.
And in fact when women are generally undervalued in this way, we end up with a society that both subtly and overtly disadvantages and disables women to the extent that they are simply unable to contribute their rich potential to their families, companies, social groups, and the wider community.
In corporations where women are conspicuous by their general absence from boards and positions of senior management, those companies perform some 15% worse than companies that have even just 2 women on their boards. The proof of women’s worth is there for all to see, all the way to the bottom line.
The economic empowerment of women is a cause we should all be working for because it is the only way women will gain the space and the independence to widely contribute their expertise for the benefit of all.
Why is This Ridiculous Situation Still Happening?
The key factors in women’s failure to succeed in professions or business to the degree that men do have now been identified.
Often a patriarchal culture is blamed, and it’s true that biases and prejudices against women do play a part. These cultural biases can prevent us from noticing even the obvious, for example that full-time working women are still doing 400% more housework than their male partners.
However of far more importance and significance are two other factors which women can and should take control of:
- Women have not sufficiently realised the importance of mentoring as an aid to rapid and smooth success
- Having an experienced mentor has been identified as the single most significant predictor of success. However female mentors are not as obvious as male mentors, and it can be particularly difficult to locate a female high achiever simply because there are so few of them.
Before you start thinking of the difficulties this implies, consider that the “single mentor” pattern is a male pattern which is based on the “cult of the individual”.
Women are team-focussed rather than self-focussed and this is one of their greatest strengths, and one of the reasons their contributions have such exponential leverage.
The good news is that by peer-mentoring in groups, far more progress is made, more quickly. Certainly we’ve noted that whenever we’ve provided the environment for such mentoring the outcomes in terms of personal and professional development, and the doors that have so quickly and freely opened, have been outstanding.
Working with a mentor or mentors needn’t take a lot of time, and can even be done on-line so that you can participate no matter where you are, all in the convenience of your own time and at your own computer.
“Business networking” has been misunderstood and undervalued
This activity has been identified as the single most effect
When I was going to school in the early eighties we were told of a job market that was drastically different than what exists today. We were told not to worry about the future too much. All we had to do was go to school, get a job and do good work. As long as we did these things we would be taken care of. We were also told the best place to put your money was in a savings accountIn today's world these instructions are not only inadequate they are for the most part completely false.Getting an education is always a good foundation no matter what a person decides to do.It does not seem to matter what you study all that much. The important part is that you
And in fact when women are generally undervalued in this way, we end up with a society that both subtly and overtly disadvantages and disables women to the extent that they are simply unable to contribute their rich potential to their families, companies, social groups, and the wider community.
In corporations where women are conspicuous by their general absence from boards and positions of senior management, those companies perform some 15% worse than companies that have even just 2 women on their boards. The proof of women’s worth is there for all to see, all the way to the bottom line.
The economic empowerment of women is a cause we should all be working for because it is the only way women will gain the space and the independence to widely contribute their expertise for the benefit of all.
Why is This Ridiculous Situation Still Happening?
The key factors in women’s failure to succeed in professions or business to the degree that men do have now been identified.
Often a patriarchal culture is blamed, and it’s true that biases and prejudices against women do play a part. These cultural biases can prevent us from noticing even the obvious, for example that full-time working women are still doing 400% more housework than their male partners.
However of far more importance and significance are two other factors which women can and should take control of:
- Women have not sufficiently realised the importance of mentoring as an aid to rapid and smooth success
- Having an experienced mentor has been identified as the single most significant predictor of success. However female mentors are not as obvious as male mentors, and it can be particularly difficult to locate a female high achiever simply because there are so few of them.
Before you start thinking of the difficulties this implies, consider that the “single mentor” pattern is a male pattern which is based on the “cult of the individual”.
Women are team-focussed rather than self-focussed and this is one of their greatest strengths, and one of the reasons their contributions have such exponential leverage.
The good news is that by peer-mentoring in groups, far more progress is made, more quickly. Certainly we’ve noted that whenever we’ve provided the environment for such mentoring the outcomes in terms of personal and professional development, and the doors that have so quickly and freely opened, have been outstanding.
Working with a mentor or mentors needn’t take a lot of time, and can even be done on-line so that you can participate no matter where you are, all in the convenience of your own time and at your own computer.
“Business networking” has been misunderstood and undervalued
This activity has been identified as the single most effect
Competency based interview questions are used in an effort to make the interview process as standard and as fair as possible. It is a technique which is being used increasingly in large organizations where many managers may be interviewing for the same type of position such as in Call Centres or Banking back offices. This method of interviewing is also called Structured Interviewing and uses Behavioural Interview techniques to assess how a candidates past performance in work related situations can be used as a predictor of future performance. Studies have shown this technique to be about 5 times more accurate than traditional interview questions.The word competency is wid
The economic empowerment of women is a cause we should all be working for because it is the only way women will gain the space and the independence to widely contribute their expertise for the benefit of all.
Why is This Ridiculous Situation Still Happening?
The key factors in women’s failure to succeed in professions or business to the degree that men do have now been identified.
Often a patriarchal culture is blamed, and it’s true that biases and prejudices against women do play a part. These cultural biases can prevent us from noticing even the obvious, for example that full-time working women are still doing 400% more housework than their male partners.
However of far more importance and significance are two other factors which women can and should take control of:
- Women have not sufficiently realised the importance of mentoring as an aid to rapid and smooth success
- Having an experienced mentor has been identified as the single most significant predictor of success. However female mentors are not as obvious as male mentors, and it can be particularly difficult to locate a female high achiever simply because there are so few of them.
Before you start thinking of the difficulties this implies, consider that the “single mentor” pattern is a male pattern which is based on the “cult of the individual”.
Women are team-focussed rather than self-focussed and this is one of their greatest strengths, and one of the reasons their contributions have such exponential leverage.
The good news is that by peer-mentoring in groups, far more progress is made, more quickly. Certainly we’ve noted that whenever we’ve provided the environment for such mentoring the outcomes in terms of personal and professional development, and the doors that have so quickly and freely opened, have been outstanding.
Working with a mentor or mentors needn’t take a lot of time, and can even be done on-line so that you can participate no matter where you are, all in the convenience of your own time and at your own computer.
“Business networking” has been misunderstood and undervalued
This activity has been identified as the single most effect
The Indian Apparel and Textile industry is largely fragmented with the largest player having less than 2% of the market share. Apart from contributing the highest net export earnings (16 percent), it contributes about 14 percent to the total industrial production and 4 percent to the GDP. It is a labour-intensive industry that provides large-scale employment especially for women since it is non-hazardous, thus creating a level-playing field for them in terms of job opportunity. It is the second largest employment provider in India after agriculture. (Annual Report, 2005-2006, Ministry of Textiles).For an industry of this stature and size, the usage of IT by the Indian app
- Women have not sufficiently realised the importance of mentoring as an aid to rapid and smooth success
- Having an experienced mentor has been identified as the single most significant predictor of success. However female mentors are not as obvious as male mentors, and it can be particularly difficult to locate a female high achiever simply because there are so few of them.
Before you start thinking of the difficulties this implies, consider that the “single mentor” pattern is a male pattern which is based on the “cult of the individual”.
Women are team-focussed rather than self-focussed and this is one of their greatest strengths, and one of the reasons their contributions have such exponential leverage.
The good news is that by peer-mentoring in groups, far more progress is made, more quickly. Certainly we’ve noted that whenever we’ve provided the environment for such mentoring the outcomes in terms of personal and professional development, and the doors that have so quickly and freely opened, have been outstanding.
Working with a mentor or mentors needn’t take a lot of time, and can even be done on-line so that you can participate no matter where you are, all in the convenience of your own time and at your own computer.
“Business networking” has been misunderstood and undervalued
This activity has been identified as the single most effect
Why is there a business cycle? Someone once noted that people could tolerate any condition except the possibility of one. This one condition is prolong periods of prosperity. Incredible as it seems, this observation contains more than just a kernel of truth, and helps to explain where we are in our current business cycle.When the economy starts to recover from a stiff downturn, people are understandably doubtful about the tenacity of the young expansion. They hold back on their discretionary spending and their use of debt. As the upswing continues to gather force, people tend to become less risk averse. You might say that the greed factor becomes more prevalent.t strengths, and one of the reasons their contributions have such exponential leverage.
The good news is that by peer-mentoring in groups, far more progress is made, more quickly. Certainly we’ve noted that whenever we’ve provided the environment for such mentoring the outcomes in terms of personal and professional development, and the doors that have so quickly and freely opened, have been outstanding.
Working with a mentor or mentors needn’t take a lot of time, and can even be done on-line so that you can participate no matter where you are, all in the convenience of your own time and at your own computer.
“Business networking” has been misunderstood and undervalued
This activity has been identified as the single most effective way of developing careers and businesses. 70% of business comes from referrals, and the great majority of referrals come from other business people whom we’ve spent enough time with for them to refer intelligently and in bulk!
However women, unlike men, wear multiple hats, and are responsible for multiple roles. These tremendous impositions on their time mean that women tend to neglect activities that are for their own direct benefit. Networking is either neglected altogether, or dropped as a first casualty of time pressures.
And “networking” can be a real trap. Many networking organisations charge a great deal of money for very little support.
In addition, not many people know how to network so it works – you’d be surprised by all the bad advice out there from so-called experts and even in books! You certainly must get involved in networking, but you must ensure you’re not wasting your time.
What You Can Do to Be More Successful, Much More Easily, Now!
The best advice I could possibly give you is to first get hold of a free ebook called “Speed Business Networking – The Manual – More Leads, More Fun, More Money” (just look under “Articles” on http://www.speedbusinessnetworking.com/.)
Women who’ve read that book have frequently expressed how relieved they were to hear that all their instinctive dislike of old networking practices were for good reason!
Secondly, check out Speed Business Networking for yourself, and join a group that is not only committed to women’s success, but has the expertise to make it happen!
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