Women still rare in the boardroom

As a distinguished anthropologist, Emoke Szathmary has more than an academic interest in what helped or hindered her climb to one of corporate Canada's loftiest plateaus... Read More...

Smashing the Glass - Women Chief Executives Are Finally Getting the Big Paycheques

Chief executives' pay is shattering the glass ceiling... Read More...

Female Execs Progress Earlier but Paid Less than Male Colleagues

Figures, released today by leading executive jobs website Experteer paint a stark picture of ... Read More...

Steering the board through high-risk waters

No on can accuse Gail Cook-Bennett of taking the easy route. She broke gender barriers 30 years ago by... Read More...

A CHAMPION OF WOMEN

This is more than a story about numbers. However, the numbers are significant. Read More...

2006 RBC CANADIAN WOMEN ENTREPRENEUR AWARD WINNERS

The 2006 winners are... Read More...

CANADA'S TOP WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS 2006

Canada's Top Women Entrepreneurs. Read More...

ROSENFELD NO. FIVE IN 'FORTUNE' 50 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN IN BUSINESS

At Kraft, the $34 billion marketer of Oreos and Maxwell House coffee, Irene Rosenfeld also aims to be a transformational leader. But she had to leave the company and prove herself elsewhere. Read More...

2006 CANADA'S MOST POWERFUL WOMEN: TOP 100

Canada's most power top 100 women. Read More...

"BLENDING IN" VS. "STICKING TOGETHER"

Women of color use different strategies to network informally and these strategies are linked to their promotion rates and organizational commitment. Read More...

CANADIAN WOMEN

In 2005: Women ages 15 and older were 46.7% of the labour force, up from 37.1% in 1976. Read More...

A CRACK IN THE GLASS CEILING

It is fitting that the first woman chosen to lead a Fortune 50 company was number 1 on Fortune Magazine's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business only eight months ago. Read More...

THE FACE OF CANADIAN BUSINESS WOMEN

This is a great time to be a Canadian woman in business. More Canadian women are self-employed than ever before. Read More...

THE GENDER WAGE RATIO: WOMEN'S AND MEN'S EARNINGS

Women s annual earnings, relative to men s, have moved up more slowly since the early 1990s than previously, and still remain substantially below parity. Read More...

POLLARA SURVEY

According to the fourth annual POLLARA survey for the Women's TM Executive Network� (WXN ), Canada's executive women don't feel fully accepted into executive-level culture. Read More...

RATE OF WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT TO TOP CORPORATE OFFICER POSITIONS SLOW

Projected trend indicates it could take 40 years for women to achieve parity with men in corporate ranks. Read More...

WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

Projected trend indicates it could take 40 years for women to achieve parity with men in corporate ranks. Read More...

WOMEN AND ACADEMIA

Women held 17.8% of president positions at 4-year colleges, men held 80.8% (with 1.4% unreported) in 2003- 2004, according to the most recent survey by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Read More...

WOMEN IN BUSINESS ARE A GROWING WAVE

In the past 15 years, there has been a 50 percent increase in the number of self-employed women in Canada, and one million Canadian women will own a small business by 2010, according to a report released by the CIBC, "Women Entrepreneurs: Leading the Charge. Read More...

WOMEN IN MANAGEMENT

Data is from the most recent year for which it is available. Unless otherwise indicated, all data is from 2005. Read More...

WOMEN ON THE RISE

An undeniable force has been mounting over the last 20 years and as it rises to the surface, it brings with it a combination of power and grace that has firmly planted itself in the Canadian economy.. Read More...

WOMEN'S EARNINGS AND INCOME

The median annual income for full-time, year-round women workers in 2004 was $31,223 compared to men s $40,798. Read More...

BALANCING ACT: WOMEN STILL FACE CHALLENGES WITH FAMILY, CAREERS

Decades of successful feminism have allowed women to do more than the Jane Austen mold writes -- hope to marry a rich man. Today's woman can choose her role, and continue to advance it. Read More...

IN DEPTH: WOMEN- & MINORITY-OWNED BUSINESSES

Special to the Boston Business Journal
Kirsten Osolind has this advice for female entrepreneurs: Finance for the company you want to become. Read More...

FIRST THERE WERE 25. NOW THERE ARE 30.

Back in 1998 when Working Woman magazine pioneered the Top 25 Companies for Executive Women, the stringent requirements meant that dozens and dozens of companies that considered themselves shoo-ins didn’t have a chance. Some had plenty of women in management but lacked the requisite two women board members. Others had a handful of highly placed women but few in the pipeline. Still others had large numbers of women clustered in lower management, but only a token woman in the executive suite. Read More...

WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN E-BUSINESS TRAINING PROGRAM CONCLUDES

Seoul, Korea, July 8, 2006

The work of women e-Commerce entrepreneurs from around the Asia-Pacific has been given a boost this week with the "APEC Women's e-Biz Training 2006" that concluded today in Seoul, Korea. Read More...

BREAKING THROUGH THE GLASS CEILING

What is the Glass Ceiling?
This is an imaginary term used to describe the invisible barriers that exist within organisations and which block women from attaining senior executive positions. Read More...

WOMEN ON BOARDS.NOT JUST THE RIGHT THING, BUT THE BRIGHT THING

The number of women on boards has increased steadily over the past thirty years. However, since 1998 the numbers have reached a plateau, at low levels. This plateau has occurred despite the fact that most CEOs acknowledge that women are not well represented on their board. Read More...

A landmark UCLA study suggests friendships between women are special. They shape who we are and who we are yet to be. They soothe our tumultuous inner world, fill the emotional gaps in our marriage, and help us remember who we really are. By the way, they may do even more. Read More...

Executive women are still encountering resistance from "the old boys" in head office, according to a new survey of 350 top-ranking Canadian women. Read More...

More than 2,400 managers in 19 states rated women more highly than men in 17 of 20 leadership skills, according to a five-year study released in 1999 by Lawrence A. Pfaff and Associates in Kalamazoo, Mich. The skills included not only traits such as coaching, teamwork, and empowering employees - traditionally seen as women's strengths - but also decisiveness and planning. Read More...

In 1998, 30% of wives earned more than their husbands (US Dept of Labor, 1999). Read More...

Number of women in information technology jobs nearly doubles Read More...

Why aren’t more women looking for careers in business? MBA Students Sherry Pedersen, Francesca Birks-Denegri and Rebecca MacKinnon write about how they broke the barriers and what they’re doing to help others. Read More...

Throughout her 40-year career, Dr. Libby Burnham has found joy in mentoring women, helping them to surpass obstacles and make it to the top in business, community services, law and politics. But although she is extremely well connected, there’s one thing the counsel at Morrison Brown Sosnovitch, a boutique law firm in Toronto, has found herself unable to accomplish: Help women get appointed to corporate boards of directors. Read More...

"When the women in a company are seen talking together," remarks University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee business-school professor Belle Rose Ragins, "the men often think they're planning a revolution." Read More...

Public companies in Scandinavia are on notice to boost the number of women in their boardrooms-or face legislation that will enforce quotas. Read More...

Canadian women are making few inroads into the male-dominated landscape of corporate boards and are lagging seriously behind progress in the United States, a study has found. Read More...