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Workplace Facts for Career Women

Here are some "By the Numbers" facts from the September 16, 2012 issue of Human Resource Executive:

91 percent of take-home income (adjusted for education, experience, race, industry and occupation) for women, as compared to incomes of men in 2011.

50 percent of women MBA graduates with children working full-time 10 years after graduation, compared with 95% of men.

62 percent of single employees who say they are treated differently from co-workers with families.

23 percent of recent college graduates who wouldn't take a job if they weren't allowed to make or receive personal telephone calls.

30 percent of people born after 1980 who feel anxious if they can't check Facebook every few minutes.

46 percent of people 18 to 24 who would rather have access to the Internet than access to their own car.

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 Barbara A. McEwen: When Doing It All Won't Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women--Workbook Edition (Paperback Edition for $14.99)

When Doing It All Won't Do: A self-coaching guide for career women" by Barbara McEwen & John G. Agno.  "

 

 

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 John G Agno: Women, Know Thyself: The most important knowledge is self-knowledge. ($2.99 for ebook or $9.99 for paperback)

 John G. Agno: Women and Time ($2.99 for ebook or $9.99 for paperback)

The Beginning of a New Era

Welcome to the beginning of a new era in which women — and womanly skills and traits — are on the rise.  Women around the world are increasingly dominant in work, education, households; even in love and marriage.

And to whom do we owe this astonishing revolution?

It is the new service economy, which doesn’t care about physical strength but instead apparently favors social intelligence, open communication, the ability to sit still and focus — things that are, at a minimum, not predominantly the province of men and seem to come easily to women.   And so, for the first time in history, the global economy is becoming a place where women are finding more success than men.

By 2009 there were as many women as men in the work force, and today the average wife contributes some 42.2 percent of her family’s income — up sharply from the 2 percent to 6 percent that women contributed in 1970.  The future looks brighter for women still.  For every two men who will get a bachelor’s degree this year, there will be three women graduates.

But this “rise” is in fact a devastating social collapse.  It starts with inequality and class division.  It is all happening to the lower and middle classes, because it is the end of a manufacturing-based economy and the men who worked there, many of whom are now unemployed, increasingly dependent on the state and women to support them.

We know the numbers are bad: since 2000 the manufacturing economy has lost six million jobs, a third of its total work force — much of it male. In 1950, 1 in 20 men in their prime were not working; today the number is a terrifying 1 in 5.

Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, September 17, The New York Times, September 16, 2012 review of "The End of Men And the Rise of Women" by Hanna Rosin (Hardcover $27.95)

 John G Agno: Women, Know Thyself: The most important knowledge is self-knowledge. ($2.99)

 John G. Agno: Women and Time ($2.99 ebook)

 John Agno: When Doing It All Won't Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women ($9.99 ebook, Workbook Edition at $14.99)

2012 Presidential Election is all about saving the American Dream.

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 Barbara A. McEwen: When Doing It All Won't Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women--Workbook Edition (Paperback Edition for $14.99)

When Doing It All Won't Do: A self-coaching guide for career women" by Barbara McEwen & John G. Agno.  "

 

 

Purchase and download for the Nook eReader and iPad tablets at Barnes & Noble   for $9.99

Purchase and download at Amazon for the Kindle Edition - for $9.99   

Purchase and download all eReader formats at Smashwords  (Various Formats, except the pdf Workbook Edition, are available) for $9.99

 John G Agno: Women, Know Thyself: The most important knowledge is self-knowledge. ($2.99 for ebook or $9.99 for paperback)

 John G. Agno: Women and Time ($2.99 for ebook or $9.99 for paperback)

Pursuit of Work-Life Balance

In theory, flextime seems like an everyone-wins proposition.  But one person’s work-life balance can be another’s work-life overload. Someone, after all, has to make that meeting or hit that deadline.

As a result, many Americans who work for companies that embrace flexible hours are confronting a sort of office class warfare. Some employees have come to expect that the demands of their children, in particular, will be accommodated — and not all of their colleagues are happy about it.

These tensions are hardly new. But at a time when many Americans are struggling to find or keep jobs — and when many of us are being asked to do more with less — the issue has come to the fore.

In a survey of more than 600 employees about work-life balance and flexibility conducted in March 2011, only 52 percent of respondents said that they talked to their colleagues about changes in how, when and where they worked. In other words, many co-workers are left to scramble because a colleague neglected to say that he was leaving early, working from home that day or taking every Friday in August off.

Some employees don’t mind filling in for their colleagues with children — in fact, they see it as paying it forward and advancing the feminist mission to “have it all.”

It’s not just the moms who are juggling.

Who, if anyone, has the work-life balance higher ground: The mother with three children, the son taking care of elderly parents, or the 20-something who is learning Mandarin once a week?  And should the reasons even matter and be brought to the table in the first place?

But even well-designed policies cannot always accommodate the reality that many industries are deadline-driven or not particularly conducive to balance.

Deborah Epstein Henry, founder of Flex-Time Lawyers, has found that colleague resentment is very common.  “It’s the reason that a lot of work-life balance programs fail,” says Ms. Henry, whose firm, based in Ardmore, Pa., advises law firms and other organizations on flexibility policies.  “In an ideal world, no one else is saddled with more work if their colleague works a reduced schedule.”

However, reality often strays far from the ideal.

  John Agno: When Doing It All Won't Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women

  John G Agno: Women, Know Thyself: The most important knowledge is self-knowledge.

  John G. Agno: Women and Time