06 March 2005

Is the workplace setting a bad example to our daughters?

Link: Is the workplace setting a bad example to our daughters? - Management-Issues.

despite legislation and a greater number of women in the working population, research by the Work Foundation suggests that many still face wage inequality; stunted opportunities and career slow tracking.

According to its research, from the age of 20 women can expect to earn 19 per cent less than men, a situation unchanged for the past 10 years and which gets worse when a woman has a family.

Working women report also report being excluded from social networks, having limited role models and fewer opportunities for management positions, said the foundation.

They also experience the “glass cliff” syndrome – being more likely to be offered senior roles in failing companies, so setting them up for criticism.

6 Mar 2005 12:51:59

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kimbofo

You might be interested in this story in The Sunday Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1512591,00.html
which implies that women in the UK 'choose' to be paid less than their male counterparts . . .

Posted by: kimbofo | 07 March 2005 at 05:36 AM

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