Posts Tagged ‘women’

Ghost story

Outdated attitudes, behaviors scary. By Carol Kinsey Goman. I believe in ghosts. Not only do I believe in ghosts, I’ve seen how they haunt individuals, teams, departments, and entire organizations around the world. And nowhere are these workplace ghosts more insidious than in the area of collaboration. What...
December 8th, 2009 | 01 (7) 2009 / html, FREE articles, Learning | Read More

American Muslim

Breaks down barriers wherever she goes. “I want to help bring peace and harmony to the world,” says Ayesha Siddiqui, who is proud to be an American-Muslim, a Pakistani-American and a New Yorker. “I’ve lived in the Middle East and here; I feel I can be a bridge between different faiths and cultures.”...
October 1st, 2009 | 01 (5) 2009 / html, Living | Read More

Men more than women share creative work online

A Northwestern University, U.S., study finds that men are more likely to share their creative work online than women despite the fact that women and men engage in creative activities at essentially equal rates. ... more for subscribers only! Please Login to continue reading or Register to get full acces...
September 17th, 2009 | 01 (5) 2009 / html, Creating | Read More

New president must fix the U.S. education gap

Fortune 1000 Executives. More than half give pre-college system a failing grade and are experiencing a shortage in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) talent. Two-thirds are concerned other countries’ increased access to STEM talent is impacting competitiveness. Just before the...
September 2nd, 2009 | 01 (4) 2009 / html, FREE articles, Learning | Read More

Housework reduces salaries of women, some men

New research by Vanderbilt professor of law and economics Joni Hersch found that housework not only reduces the salaries of women, but also affects some men’s wages. She also found that women’s salaries are negatively impacted by housework, regardless of profession. ... more for subscribers only!...
July 13th, 2009 | Choosing | Read More

Better at texting

Women push computer-mediated communication. The book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus and its gender stereotypes on how the sexes communicate remains fodder for debate, but two Indiana University researchers have confirmed one thing: When men and women talk through technology, it’s the women...
May 14th, 2009 | 01 (2) 2009 / html, Living | Read More

Apron strings keep women out of math fields

Women don’t choose careers in math-intensive fields, such as computer science, physics, technology, engineering, chemistry and higher mathematics, because they want the flexibility to raise children, or because they prefer other fields of science that are less math-intensive – not because they lack...
April 14th, 2009 | 01 (1) 2009 / html, FREE articles, Living | Read More