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Women and work: We did it! | The Economist - 0 views

  • within the next few months women will cross the 50% threshold and become the majority of the American workforce
  • Women already make up the majority of university graduates in the OECD countries and the majority of professional workers in several rich countries, including the United States. Women run many of the world’s great companies, from PepsiCo in America to Areva in France.
  • Women’s economic empowerment is arguably the biggest social change of our times
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  • women are still under-represented at the top of companies. Only 2% of the bosses of America’s largest companies and 5% of their peers in Britain are women.
  • juggling work and child-rearing is difficult
  • Many women feel they have to choose between their children and their careers. Women who prosper in high-pressure companies during their 20s drop out in dramatic numbers in their 30s and then find it almost impossible to regain their earlier momentum. Less-skilled women are trapped in poorly paid jobs with hand-to-mouth child-care arrangements. Motherhood, not sexism, is the issue: in America, childless women earn almost as much as men, but mothers earn significantly less. And those mothers’ relative poverty also disadvantages their children.
  • the shift towards women is likely to continue: by 2011 there will be 2.6m more female than male university students in America.
  • All this argues, mostly, for letting the market do the work.
  • Norway has used threats of quotas to dramatic effect. Some 40% of the legislators there are women. All the Scandinavian countries provide plenty of state-financed nurseries. They have the highest levels of female employment in the world and far fewer of the social problems that plague Britain and America.
  • there are plenty of cheaper, subtler ways in which governments can make life easier for women
  • Some popular American charter schools now offer longer school days and shorter summer holidays.
Sarah Hickman

Canada Business Podcasting | Canada-Ontario Business Service Centre - 0 views

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    This Government of Ontario site provides business advice to several groups of individuals, including youth entrepreneurs and women entrepreneurs. Information tools such as Business Guides, Interactive Business Planners, and Event Workshops are offered. Users can also subscribe to Podcasting sessions such as the Canada Business Audio Workshop. While all documents can be accessed in English and in French, some are now also translated to Spanish, Arabic, Korean, Punjabi and Chinese.
Cathy Bogaart

Women's Enterprise Task Force calls women's enterprise as enabler for economic recovery... - 0 views

  • women’s enterprise can be one of a number of enablers for economic recovery
  • Women in Canada have started small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) at about twice the rate of men.
  • women entrepreneurs are more positive than men. As their companies are low risk, low cost, without high debt levels, they can spend more time on winning contracts than funding. Women founders of high-growth companies rely more on bank loans than on equity.
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    Women are important entrepreneurs and need to be supported to continue their businesses in this recession.
Cathy Bogaart

Rotman Initiative for Women in Business | Next Steps: A Program for Experienced Women E... - 0 views

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    The Next Steps program gives you the confidence and skills you need to take your business to the next level. Interact with a senior-level advisory panel of accomplished women entrepreneurs, and gain knowledge from peer mentors who have shared your business challenges. The six-module format allows you to take what you learn and apply it immediately.
Cathy Bogaart

Savor the Success - Business Network for women entrepreneurs - 0 views

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    Articles and business networks for women entrepreneurs.
Cathy Bogaart

Women in Power - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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    The Globe's series on Women in Power includes an article on SheEOs and female entrepreneurs among others. Just in time for International Women's Day.
Cathy Bogaart

Tech equalizer - NOW Magazine, June 24, 2011 - 0 views

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    This article by Joe Wilson notes how women are leading "tech for change" in the developing world. All of the women interviewed were speakers at Net Change Week (which took place at MaRS in June) - and are truly leading this work globally.
Karen Schulman Dupuis

Why aren't there more women in tech start-ups? - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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    "We need to get the word out that, whether you're male or female, this is an exciting field with limitless opportunities," she says.
Assunta Krehl

Two women from MaRS - Entrepreneur - Financial Post - May 22, 2012 - 0 views

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    MaRS Discovery District has earned global recognition as a hub of innovation for technology and clean-tech startups since its launch in 2005. Mary Teresa Bitti, Financial Post reporter interviews Dr. Ilse Treurnicht, CEO, MaRS Discovery District and Allyson Hewitt, Director, Social Entrepreneurship,  SiG@MaRS about social innovation.
Sarah Hickman

What Got You Here Wont Get You There: Amazon.ca: Marshall Goldsmith: Books - 0 views

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    The corporate world is filled with executives, men and women who have worked hard for years to reach the upper levels of management. They're intelligent, skilled, and even charismatic. But only a handful of them will ever reach the pinnacle -- and as executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shows in this book, subtle nuances make all the difference. These are small "transactional flaws" performed by one person against another (as simple as not saying thank you enough), which lead to negative perceptions that can hold any executive back. Using Goldsmith's straightforward, jargonfree advice, it's amazingly easy behavior to change. Executives who hire Goldsmith for one-on-one coaching pay $250,000 for the privilege. With this book, his help is available for 1/10,000th of the price.
Karen Schulman Dupuis

Science-class dropout starts world-beating website for researchers - The Globe and Mail - 1 views

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    How did a woman who dropped science in high school come to develop and run one of the world's top scientific websites?
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