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Gender Asbestos at The Economist |
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Fredag, 08. januar 2010 12:32 |
Gender Asbestos at The Economist
Posted by Louise Roth to Gender Myths and Facts
In a recent article, “Womenomics: Feminist management theorists are flirting with some dangerous arguments,” The Economist takes a position on an age-old feminist debate: are women the same as men (and therefore equal) or are women different from men (implying that men and women are unequal)? Since at least the early 1980s, feminist scholars have recognized that this debate is a trap because it makes men the measure of all things. If women have to be the same to be equal, then they must live up to a male standard that doesn’t fit their experience (especially if that standard includes a stay-at-home spouse and no childcare responsibilities). If women claim to be different, then difference can be used to justify inequality. But The Economist comes out firmly on the side of preferring the sameness argument: women should be tough and manly in order to compete with men on their own turf.
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Source: Business APE
References:
Acker, Joan. 1990. “Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations.” Gender and Society, 4(2): 139-158.
Roth, Louise Marie. 2006. Selling Women Short: Gender and Money on Wall Street. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Louise Roth is the author of Selling Women Short: Gender and Money on Wall Street |
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Womenomics: Feminist management theorists are flirting with some dangerous arguments |
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Fredag, 08. januar 2010 12:28 |
Womenomics
Dec 30th 2009
From The Economist print edition
THE late Paul Samuelson once quipped that “women are just men with less money”. As a father of six, he might have added something about women’s role in the reproduction of the species. But his aphorism is about as good a one-sentence summary of classical feminism as you can get.
The first generations of successful women insisted on being judged by the same standards as men. They had nothing but contempt for the notion of special treatment for “the sisters”, and instead insisted on getting ahead by dint of working harder and thinking smarter. Margaret Thatcher made no secret of her contempt for the wimpish men around her. (There is a joke about her going out to dinner with her cabinet. “Steak or fish?” asks the waiter. “Steak, of course,” she replies. “And for the vegetables?” “They’ll have steak as well.”) During America’s most recent presidential election Hillary Clinton taunted Barack Obama with an advertisement that implied that he, unlike she, was not up to the challenge of answering the red phone at 3am.
Many pioneering businesswomen pride themselves on their toughness. Dong Mingzhu, the boss of Gree Electric Appliances, an air-conditioning giant, says flatly, “I never miss. I never admit mistakes and I am always correct.” In the past three years her company has boosted shareholder returns by nearly 500%.
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Women Heading Companies Are Not Rushing to Cut Staff |
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Onsdag, 09. december 2009 13:27 |
More than half of Women Presidents' Organization members have not reduced work force
Source: WPO survey
- 55% of female CEOs and company presidents in the Women Presidents’ Organisation told the group’s annual survey that despite the financial crisis they have not reduced their work force.
- Two in three women-owned companies also did not cut salaries paid out.
- But perhaps the most heartening figure from the survey was that 82% of WPO members see their companies doing better in 2010. Despite the crisis nearly one in three members said their companies had grown thus far in 2009.
- All this comes as unemployment is a decades-long highs around the world. But WP members’ outlook shows they are able to to the changing and challenging business climate. “These statistics are evidence of the versatility and strength of companies owned by women entrepreneurs in the face of adversity,” said Marsha Firestone, president and founder of WPO.
A summary of the WPO survey
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Leadership Yoga: Innovation Advantages from Seeing Disadvantage |
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Mandag, 07. december 2009 18:15 |
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The best companies stand conventional wisdom on its head.
Have you noticed the tectonic plates starting to shift? Values and social purpose are creeping back into the business strategy conversation. Big societal problems are the next innovation frontier, and the best companies are practicing what I call "leadership yoga" — flipping the organization upside down to have their eyes to the ground to see the grass roots, where the next opportunities are starting to grow.
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It is women who rescues retailers Christmas this year! |
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Tirsdag, 01. december 2009 09:26 |
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Ann Lehmann Erichsen, Nordea Consumer Economist, Nordea. Member of TalentTuning's advisory board. Read more...
-We can see that private consumption around Christmas is stabilized thanks to the fact that the women this year will spend 15 per cent more on Christmas gifts than men. It was only for men Christmas trade would go back for the second consecutive year with more bankruptcies to follow.
-So it is women who rescues retailers Christmas this year. It is certainly the same trend we saw in teen survey. Vigor and a more positive attitude.
-There is no doubt that both pension and unemployment haunts much more in men's budget than in women, which caused the large difference in consumption behavior that we see in years.
-In 2006-2007-2008, there were indeed differences between men's and women's consumption up to Christmas, but only marginally so that a shift has occurred in years.
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