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How to Tell your Boss He or She is Wrong?
How about your boss, will he or she accept your criticism or advice?
How do you tell your boss he (or she) is wrong?
The short answer: very carefully. The old adage about picking your battles to win the war still holds.
But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try or that you’re destined to lose.
When your boss’ mistake is going to create a problem for your employer, a customer or another department, it is appropriate for you to prevent the problem. You must be careful not to offend or anger your boss when doing so.
Think of it this way: You still can learn from a bad boss. Analyze why that boss is a bad boss and then resolve to avoid those things if you ever become a boss yourself. As the cynic reminds us, even a stopped clock is correct twice a day.
Here are few tips to telling a superior that he’s headed down a misbegotten path. (more…)
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What do Men Want from Women
This is a generation of men who has grown up with educated women as their mothers, teachers, doctors, and role models,
What do Men want?
Actually, it’s pretty simple.
Deep inside the heart of every man is a secret wish to be trusted. How many times have men said to their wives, “If you would just trust me.” Many men wonder why it seems so difficult for their wives to do something so seemingly simple. The answer stems from the physiological differences between the sexes.
Many women ask the question “What do men want?” to their women friends and sometimes they’ll ask their guy friends.
If women would approach men with a few simple, effective guidelines, they’ll be much more likely to get exactly what they want from men: a fulfilling, healthy, happy relationship.
Here are some of the many answers Wiki Answers Contributors have given: (more…)
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Gender Discrimination in the Workplace
Gender Discrimination:
What is sex discrimination?
When you are treated differently because of your sex and when the different treatment negatively affects the “terms or conditions of employment,” it is illegal. “Terms or conditions of employment” include position, pay, title, being hired or fired from a job, and advancement and training opportunities.
The gender gap at work is still alive and well according to new research that examined gender roles in the workplace.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics cites women working 41 to 44 hours per week earn 84.6% of what men working similar hours earn. It gets worse as women work longer hours — women working more than 60 hours per week earn only 78.3% of what men in the same time category earn.
Ways of Gender Discrimination Affects Women in their Workplace. (more…)
Salary and Rank Differences Between Men and Women Issue
Differences Between Men and Women Issue:
- Women Are More Optimistic: It’s already been shown that men and women view money differently, which may explain why they also have such different qualities when it comes to their debt.
- Contrary to what many assume, though many more women are in debt counseling, men actually suffer from the most debt. Here’s a look at how the debt issues of men and women differ and why that might be the case:
- Women’s participation in the sciences has increased substantially in the last three decades, especially in the life sciences, such as biology.
- The proportion of women science students has grown, but to a lesser extent at the graduate level than the undergraduate level.
Meanwhile, the proportion of faculty in the sciences who are women has also increased, but they still lag behind men faculty in terms of salary and rank.
However, studies indicate that experience, work patterns, and education levels can largely explain these differences. (more…)
Gender Issue for Working Women
As president of Women Involved in Living and Learning (WILL), Kempter knew women’s issues was something that interested her.
When she learned of the organization EMILY’s List, which works to elect pro-choice Democratic women to office, she thought it was the perfect combination of her interests.
Women who have been working from home for many years have said that they want their existing skills to be recognized and remunerated with better pay and conditions and they want to extend their knowledge and skills in order to find better paid work outside the home.
As one woman put it;
I’ve had enough. The work I do is of a high standard, but it’s still not worth anything. I don’t get holiday or sick pay. I have to work by myself and then when I am sick and when there’s no work in the slow season, I don’t get any money.
I want to work outside (the home) and then people might treat me equally and I might get more rights. I have a lot of experience (Nhu). (more…)
Women has to Face Higher Stress than Men
Stress at office & home for women.
Traveling to work and back is claimed to be difficult for women than men. A recent research on this aspect reveals that women traveling to and from work were at a mental stress than the men.
The researchers claim that the burden of responsibilities on women was more than the men and that even after moving out of the office women had to perform odd jobs at home.
A study, published in the Journal of Health Economics, found that women with pre-school age children were affected the most.
A team of researchers studied data of the British Household Panel Survey, which constituted of the yearly record of households in the UK, collecting information about employment, social and economic factors, well-being and health.
Women were psychologically at a greater pressure than men as men just traveled to and from work, but women had to perform various household jobs upon returning. (more…)
Women In Workplace
It’s extremely obvious that women have come a long way as successful professionals.
Life in the workplace has become much more diversified as an increased number of women have made their presence felt in many industries and professions.
The female task force has expanded with exponential strength, and thus has its dire importance in the professional world.
When employers were trying to cut back on their labor bill, they got more bang for their buck by cutting back on male workers,” she was quoted as saying in the LA Times. “Something like that might be happening now.“
She added that men’s increasing presence at home is impacting the amount of time fathers now spend with their children.
Still, women are out in protest across the Middle East and beyond, asking insistently for change and fundamental fairness for their place in society. (more…)
Women Who Love Their Jobs, and Why
Working women—from executives to celebrities, artists to engineers—who found happiness in the workplace.
Both prescriptive and inspirational, Be Happy At Work helps women craft their own happy working lives by profiling those who already have.
They called it Happy “absolutely inspiring,” and the Library Journal described it as “fantastic—highly recommended.”
In addition to a six-city tour, Joanne and her team were featured in USA Today, The New York Times, Glamour, The Boston Globe and the Chicago Tribune, among others.
Abu Dhabi: The Emirati woman loves the job she does and takes pride in her participation in the country’s development, according to the Harvard Business Review magazine.
The magazine, which is issued by Harvard University in the US, published a report about Emirati women. (more…)
Men Versus Women Issue in the Job Market
Gender issue in the Job Market
The anxiety among women is unprecedented,” Michael J. Silverstein, senior partner at The Boston Consulting Group and coauthor of “Women Want More,” tells Marketing Daily.
“Women are upset about a lot of things, including the way the government works and all the failed programs.
Unemployment is a bigger problem among men, who have lost about 85% of the jobs, but if women are married, it makes them worried about the family’s finances.
And if they’re single, it means unemployed men are ineligible. They have a lot of anxiety and resentment and they really feel like no one is listening.”
Since the Soviet era, more Russian women than men have received university degrees, yet their earnings and position in the job market are far lower than those of men.
There are two factors which go hand in hand: the horizontal concentration of women in highly-specialized, but less prestigious and less well paid areas; and vertical concentration, where, within each field, (more…)