Monthly Archives: April 2011

April 13th, 2011 By: Shareen Pathak An iPhone app like WiseDame, which alerts loved ones of your location, would never have been dreamed up by a man, says Rachel Sklar, 38, the former corporate lawyer and Huffington Post projects editor-turned-media…
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April 22nd, 2011 By: Julie Steinberg Every organization has a set of unwritten rules. Which executives to butter up, how late to stay at night, or whether it’s okay hit on your co-workers. While such quandaries apply to men and…
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April 11th, 2011 By: FINS Staff Women are still underrepresented on boards an on executive teams at many companies, the result of a persistent gender gap supported by an inadequate promotion system, according to consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Nonetheless,…
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We featured the article ” Booze, Meat and Golf: Playing in the Boys Club“  which offered helpful tips for dealing with the more male friendly aspects of the business world. I thought that the article made some good…
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April 11th, 2011 By: CareerDiva There’s a great report by the Wall Street Journal today on women in the workplace, and one of the most eye-opening lines came from a female titan in the financial industry, Sallie Krawcheck, president of…
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April 15th, 2011 By: Rieva Lesonsky Many of us business owners devote endless hours trying to come up with the next big thing. That’s not necessarily a bad exercise, but sometimes we need to give our brains a rest. I’m…
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By: Abram McConnell In today’s society, it is not wise to rely on social insecurity as a means of building wealth; it takes savings. What you chose to save will be the key factor in deciding the amount of wealth…
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We featured the article “Show Emotions, But Don’t Be Emotional” and it had some pretty important implications for women, especially in the workplace. We’ve been taught that to show emotions is to show weakness. This is certainly not…
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April 11th, 2011 Women face unique challenges at specific stages of their careers. Task-force participants at The Wall Street Journal’s Women in the Economy Conference split off into six career-stage sessions, and came up with four priorities each for dealing…
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April 2011 By: Joanna Barsh and Lareina Yee Women have been a growing factor in the success of the US economy since the 1970s. Indeed, the additional productive power of women entering the workforce from 1970 until today accounts for…
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