The employment rate may be disappointing, but it could be helping to fuel a boom in the number of women-owned businesses. New York state has an estimated 674200 firms owned by women, up a whopping 71.1% from 1997 Read More
The employment rate may be disappointing, but it could be helping to fuel a boom in the number of women-owned businesses. New York state has an estimated 674200 firms owned by women, up a whopping 71.1% from 1997 Read More
When Oprah Winfrey had a talk show on ABC (DIS), she could do no wrong. The queen of afternoon television hosted Hollywood’s biggest stars. She famously gave away Pontiacs to her studio audience in 2004. “Everybody gets a car!” she shouted, jumping up and down. “Everybody gets a car!”
Winfrey has had less reason to celebrate since she ventured into the fragmented universe of cable TV, launching the Oprah Winfrey Network in 2011. According to Horizon Media, a New York ad agency, OWN attracts an average of 250,000 viewers in prime time. That’s a pittance, compared with the 12.6 million viewers who watched her afternoon talk show during its final season on ABC. Read More
Perhaps one of the most surprising aspects of this cutting-edge product is that this company has a woman president, is financed by women investors, and is made in a manufacturing plant owned by a woman. Why surprising? Here’s a sad truth in 2012: Read More
GARDEN CITY, N.Y., March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Ruth Shyer, Independent Computer Consultant with SuMMit Consulting, LLC, is being honored as a 2010/2011 Professional Woman of the Year in IT Administration by National Association of Professional Women, a prestigious distinction awarded by the 200,000-strong membership of NAPW who join together to develop innovative business and social relationships.
“The businesses of Oklahoma need to take advantage of every opportunity for success. They need to maintain innovation and efficiency in their Information Technology applications,” said Ms. Shyer. Read more
NEW YORK, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Network Journal today honored Rose Stuckey Kirk, president of the Verizon Foundation, and the other women named to the publication’s 2012 list of 25 Influential Black Women in Business. The honorees were recognized at the Journal’s 14th anniversary luncheon, held in conjunction with Women’s History Month. Read more
(Reuters) – Women have moved into top jobs at some of America’s biggest and most recognized corporations including IBM, Pepsico and Archer Daniels Midland. But in their shadows, at the second tier of big U.S. companies, it’s a different story.
A new snapshot of trends at mid-cap companies show women are far less likely than their male counterparts to reach top leadership positions at those firms.
On the bright side, however they are starting to close a pay gap with men and – in a cluster of industries – even out-earn them.
Researchers at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business surveyed about 2,000 executives at companies with stock market capitalization of $1 billion to $7 billion, so-called mid-cap firms.
They found that women made up 4.5 percent of the top leadership in 2010. That is far less than at larger firms, where other data show women make up about 14 percent of executive positions. Read more
Canada NewsWire (press release)
TORONTO, March 15, 2012 /CNW/ – The proportion of women holding senior management roles in Canada has declined from 28% in 2011 to 25% this year, while in Europe, the number is steadily increasing, according to the latest research from Grant Thornton. On a global basis, 21% of senior management roles are held by women—barely higher than the level in 2004. In Canada and around the world, only one in ten businesses has a female CEO, and 34% of businesses said their company had no women in senior management at all. Read more
Airline Earns Praise for Creating Exceptional Opportunities for Women
TEMPE, Ariz., March 15, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — US Airways today was named as a recipient of the Top 25 Workplaces for Women award by az magazine for creating one of the best workplaces for women in Arizona. The carrier earned praise from a panel of judges for the percentage of women in leadership positions, programs and practices that demonstrate a commitment to hiring and retaining women and for providing a family-friendly work environment. Read More
Oprah Winfrey successfully returned to the type of exclusive celebrity interviews that were the bread and butter of her syndicated daytime talk show. read more
BERLIN (Reuters) – The wage gap between men and women is wider in Germany than in any other European country and women occupy just four percent of top corporate jobs, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said on Monday.
Germany may be run by a woman but it is still lagging on gender issues, despite promises to change its ways.
Full-time employed women earn 21.6 percent less on average than their male counterparts in Germany, a pay gap that is well above the OECD average of 16 percent. In Norway and Belgium, women receive 8.4 and 8.9 percent less.
“In no other European country is the wage gap between men and women so strong as in Germany,” the OECD wrote. “And with regards to the number of women in leading positions too, Germany is lagging by international comparison.” read more
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