Title: What If Women Ran Wall Street? Study: What If Women Ran Wall Street? (Sheelah Kolhatkar, New York Magazine 2010) Finding: A certain amount of risk-taking is biologically driven by testosterone, and women can use this to their advantage in producing less emotionally-driven results. InPower...
Study: Who Is Governing Whom? Senior Managers, Governance and the Structure of Generosity in Large U.S. Firms (Christopher Marquis and Matthew Lee, Harvard Business School, 2011) Finding: More women on boards and senior management teams correlate with greater giving by their companies. Note about...
Study: Can Single- Sex Education Make Women Less Risk- Averse? (Sosa, Booth, Nolen, 2012) Finding: Assumptions that women are more risk-averse than men may be more about social context and less about inherent gender traits InPower Insight: When it comes to risk-taking, the stories we tell...
Study: Do Daughters Help Ease Gender Pay Gap? (Columbia Business School, 2011, Ross, Dahl, Deszo) Finding: The wage gap decreases measurably when a male CEO has daughters. InPower Insight: Know that people's personal experiences - including yours - effect their hiring practices. Summary: In a new...
Title: Women And Men Make A Great Team When The Woman Make It To Senior Roles Study: Behind Every Great Woman (Bloomburg BusinessWeek 2012) Finding: Many powerful women are receiving significant help - to the point of social role reversal - more and more often to help them achieve work-life...
Study: The Global Economy Recovery Will Be Driven by Women: Opinion (W2W) Finding: Empowering women could be the key to economic recovery. Note about The Woman Effect Research Index: This study was performed by researchers not affiliated with InPower Women. Our Research Index includes all relevant...
Study: A Study in Leadership: Women Do it Better Than Men (Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman – Zenger/Folkman 2012) Finding: This study of 7,280 leaders finds that women excel at 15 of 16 individual leadership characteristics, as judged by their peers, subordinates and managers. The variation between...
Study: Why SuperMoms Are More Likely To Be Depressed (Katrina Leupp, University of Washington at Seattle 2011) Finding: The strain to attain work life balance may be causing depression in some stay-at-home SuperMoms. Note about The Woman Effect Research Index: This study was performed by...
Study: Unlocking the Full Potential of Women in the U.S. Economy (McKinsey Consultants, 2011) Finding: Retaining and promoting women in middle management is a key leverage point to helping women reach their full economic potential. InPower Insight: Women are good for business, so help women...
Study: Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide (Linda Babcock, Carnegie Mellon 2011) Finding: The wage gap affects more than high-level executives. Women need to negotiate for what they're worth straight out of college as well as when they're moving up the corporate ladder....
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