Hiring managers want one thing: A salary negotiation coach's advice to her female executive clients
Fri Jul 29th, 2016
Meredith Bennett-Smith writes, "I'll never forget the first time I found out I was making less money than the equally qualified man sitting in the desk next to mine. It was frustrating, demoralizing, and confusing—I didn't know where things had gone wrong. For decades, American men and women were
Why being an Orthodox Jewish mom makes me a better CEO
Sarah Hofstetter writes, "When 360i, the ad agency I run, won Oscar Mayer's business in 2010, I politely declined their invitation to sample products from their new portfolio. It's not that I wasn't interested—I had spent countless hours trying to win the hot dog maker's business—but my faith simply
Pursuing gender pay equity still risky at many firms
Lizzy McLellan writes, "As more women lawyers use litigation to fight unequal pay, it begs the question of whether effective methods exist for pursuing equality internally before going to the courts. But women lawyers familiar with gender disparity issues said many attorneys face backlash when they
Offices should follow the lead of the NBA and create "hustle stats"
Danielle Teller writes, "Have you ever heard of Rosalind Franklin? Probably not. But you certainly know of James Watson and Francis Crick. They won a Nobel Prize for describing the structure of DNA, a discovery they wouldn't have made if they hadn't seen Rosalind Franklin's x-ray photograph of the
Earning less money isn't a choice that women just make
Emily Peck writes, "Women don't choose to make less money than men. But that's often the criticism leveled when we talk about the gender pay gap, or the fact that women, on average, make only 79 cents for every dollar a man earns. The argument typically is: Women look for work in lower-paying