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Today's Thought - What do we talk about? 2007-11-28 10:33:00 A 1999 survey of 1,000 telephone users by the British cable phone company Telewest revealed what men and women talk about on the phone: Men Women Friends 30% 53% Relationships 18% 22% Work 25% 11% Sports 16% 2% Other 11% 12% Read more:Today
The Work Environment 4# - Getting Things Done and Self Fulfilling Prophecy 2007-11-28 06:15:00 Getting Things Done- Why women should be more Gutsy:A recent research has shown that men are more likely to negotiate and have confidence in theur assessments. The research implies that there is some component of Getting Things Done that supports and teachesbehavious that, in the past, men have excelled at: clarifying what you want, asking for it, and constantly negotiating with oneself and with others to achieve the desired outcome. I find that a bit weord, since several of these components support more of our society's feminine ideal of creating a healthy work/life balance.Encouraging both men and women to practice such powerful behaviours helps them overcome the "assertment handicap" and evolve into better negotiatoers, and help workers communicate better.How do we limit ourselves based on gender, and end up with a self-fulfilling prophecy?The notion of the self-fulfilling prophecy was conceptualized by Robert Merton a professor of sociology at Columbia University. In a 195 Read more:Environment
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The Work Environment 3# - Recruting women - best tips and articles 2007-11-28 05:05:00 Many organizations aren't set up to properly attract and retain talented female employees.Here are a few tips:Where to look: 1. Catalyst Women: Get connected to the highly skilled members and award-winners of this organization. 2. American Business Women's Association: Network with leading ladies at this organization's conferences, education events and more. 3. Webgrrls JobBank: To find women who are technologically inclined, check out resumes and post jobs at the Webgrrls JobBank. 4. How to Make Every Search Ladies Night: Use these handy search tips to find women in your industry. 5. Recruitment: Finding the Right Women for the Job: Check out this guide to hiring women for nontraditional jobs. 6. Athena Foundation: The Athena Foundation recognizes women who positively impact U.S. industry. Keep an eye on its members and award winners for the best in female professional achievement. 7. Russia: A Huge Female Talent Resource for U.S. C Read more:Environment
The Work Environment 2# - Why Spatial Ability Affects Our Career Choices 2007-11-24 11:12:00 According to Wikipedia, spatial ability is the ability to mentally manipulate 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional figures. It is typically measured with simple cognitive tests and is predictive of user performance with some kinds of user interfaces.Brain scans show that spatial ability is located mostly in the right brain for men and is one of a male's strongest abilities. It developed from ancient times to allow men, the hunters, to calculate speed, movement and distance of prey.Spatial
ability is located in both brain hemispheres for women but does not have a specific measurable location. 90% of women have limited spatial ability.Iowa state university professor Dr Camilla Benhow scanned the brains of more than a million boys and girls to study their spatial ability and reported that the differences were already outstanding at the age of four. She found that while girls were superb at seeing two dimensions in the brain, boys had the ability to see a third dimension.As mentioned, women do Read more:Career
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The Work Environment 2007-11-21 13:06:00 Desclaimer: In my next posts, I will discuss gender in the work eniorment, and base many of my claims on research. I would like to restate that what i say is MOSTLY true. In contrast to the researche findings i will present, some women have GREAT spatial skills and some men have GREAT verbal skills.This posts are for women and men interested in a prevailing gender stereotype that affects all of us in the corporate culture *************************************************************************************We did, in fact, lived and worked in harmony. Once. A long time ago.The man's role was clear -venture out each day and risk his life as a hunter in order to bring home the bacon. He thus developed long distance navigational and marksmanship skills, in order to hit his moving target.The woman, as the child-bearer she needed to monitor her immediate surroundings for signs of danger, have great short-rage navigational skills and high ability to sense little changes in the performance an Read more:Environment
Mind Matters 2007-11-21 12:09:00 It is well known that gender's effect on our behavior is enormous, and that simple truth is displayed everyday, everywhere. For hundreds of years, people have tried to answer that simple and elusive question: why?The answers to that question brought about thousands of researches, consumptions and even typecasts. The big and small screen producers try to capture that behavioral difference and turn it to drama, comedy, and naturally - horror.We experience a slightly different type of horror evoked from the difference between men and women regularly. Women often despair about men's silence. Men can swear that women simply can't read maps.In this blog I'll attempt to help you clear this grey matter a bit, and understand what makes men and women, even though they belong to the same species - be so different. I will give you a mixture of ideas, a narrative of what scientists know so far about gender differences and similarities, news and useful tips.This blog by no means intends to crea
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