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Gender Research
Research Says: Experience Can Overcome Attitude for a Working Mother
Study: What Moms Think: Career vs. Paycheck. (Working Mother Media, 2012) Finding: Attitudes determine outcomes in this research on women and work, but experience matters too. Women who are career minded are more positive about their careers. Male managers who have experience with working moms are...
Research Summary: Employee Satisfaction Is Down, Women Respond Differently
Title: Employee Satisfaction Is Down, Women Respond Differently Study: Reinvent Opportunity: Looking Through a New Lens (Accenture 2011) Finding: Women and men have different strategies for handling job dissatisfaction. InPower Insight: Women and men have similar desires to make their current jobs...
Infographic: Do Men Really Earn More Than Women?
By: Payscale Yes, over the course of their lifetime, on average, men earn more than women. But looking at the devil in the details of certain industries when similarly qualified, we see a different story. What does this mean for you? It means you often can bring in the same bacon, so make sure...
Research Summary: Women and Risk – What if Women Ran Wall Street?
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...
Research Summary: Women on Boards Make More Generous Companies?
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...
Research Says: Women Being More Risk-Averse May Be a Half Truth
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...
Research Says: The “Daughter Effect” Helps Ease Gender Pay Gap?
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...
Research Says: Behind Every Woman The Men Are Helping Achieve Work-Life Balance
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...
Research Says: Global Economy Recovery Will Be Driven By Women
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...
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