Feature Channels: Women in Business

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Launching today, Bettyvision, www.bettyvision.com, is a free online vision board community providing women of all ages the tools and resources needed to identify, explore and, most important, be supported in the pursuit their dreams.

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As a corporate responsibility consultant, Kellie McElhaney publicly criticized Apple’s recent appointment of another man to an already all-male executive team. McElhaney’s new research goes one step further, indicating that the number of women on a corporate board correlates with a firm’s sustainability performance.

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Although some scholars have suggested that the income gap between men and women is due to women’s reluctance to negotiate salaries, a new study shows that given an invitation, women are just as willing as men to negotiate. Men, however, are more likely to ask for more money when there is no explicit statement in a job description that wages are negotiable.

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The Women’s College of the University of Denver and The White House Project have conducted a national study examining women’s positional leadership across 14 sectors.

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In a 2010 survey of laid-off workers across the United States, married moms spent more time between jobs and were overall less likely to find new jobs compared with married dads. Once re-employed, married moms experienced a decrease in earnings of $175 more per week compared with married dads.

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Data reveals men are most likely to start businesses for the money, women for social value.

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A study of pay inequality among white women by sociologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst finds having children reduces women’s earnings, even for those with comparable qualifications, experience, hours and jobs. While all women suffer this penalty, the lowest-paid women lose the most.