American women school men on value of teamwork
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When they were growing from girls to women on playgrounds around the United States, they were the ones who weren&#39;t offended but complimented by the suggestion that they played basketball &quot;like a guy.
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Life has improved for US women during the past 40 years, but big inequities persist, and they vary substantially by state, according to an assessment released Tuesday.
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ATHENS -- For a team that hasn't lost an important international game in a decade, the United States women are fast becoming what we all thought the US men would be -- undisputed worldbeaters.
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ATHENS, Greece - This country has long been seen as a patriarchal society. But the critical role played by two women in the success of the Olympic Games shows how much that society is changing.
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Boxing is catching on among young women - both for its physical benefits and for the discipline it instills.
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SEATTLE - For more than a decade, academics and technology executives have been frowning at the widening gender gap in computer science. Everyone has a theory, but no one has managed to attract many more women.
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Study shows women accounted for 44 percent of the athletes at NCAA Division I colleges in 2002-03, the same as the previous year.
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NEW YORK  - Women are much more likely than men to search the Internet for information on health, according to research conducted by two professors from Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island.
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Men are making more money than women in technology jobs, about 12 percent more last year, according to a salary survey by career site Dice.com.The survey found that salaries for men increased by 2.4 percent in 2007 but stayed flat for women. The average salary last year for men was $76,582, and for women, it was $67,507, according to Dice. The gap widened last year: In 2006, the difference between salaries paid to men and women was 9.7 percent.Thomas Silver, senior vice president of marketing at Dice, which is part of Dice Holdings in New York, said employers need to look at the salary data, and if they have workers with comparable skills and experience doing comparable jobs, then &quot;that gap needs to be closed.&quot;Dice said it collected the salary data from more than 19,000 technology professionals who use its site. Respondents either filled out an online survey or replied to a request for information sent via e-mail. &quot;We feel comfortable that what we&#39;re seeing here is in fact representative of what&#39;s happening in the marketplace,&quot; Silver said.The gender gap was highest for tech workers in the retail, mail-order and e-commerce industries, with men making 15 percent more than women. The industry with the narrowest wage gap is manufacturing, at a 6.4 percent difference in salary.But as people work their way up in an organization to managerial jobs, the gender gap tends to shrink. Female project managers earned $100,436 last year, which is the first year that Dice&#39;s salary survey topped the six-figure mark for women. Men still made a little more at $101,569.From the data, Silver said it&#39;s clear that an IT worker who stays in the field, has good skills and experience, and can become a manager will move into jobs that pay well.&quot;Companies are willing to pay for experience,&quot; said Silver, and that was reflected in the pay increases by age, with those over 40 seeing increases of 2.3 percent. Entry level workers, who received 13.2 percent increases in 2006, saw a slight decline last year.The best paying jobs in IT were those with hard-to-find skills, Dice said. Those with skills in ETL (extract, transform and load) earned $96,559; ERP (enterprise resource planning), $95,589; SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), $95,387. The highest-paid operating system skill was Solaris, where workers were paid $90,321.Overall, IT salaries increased last year by 1.7 percent to $74,570, Dice said. By region, the three highest-paying areas were Silicon Valley, at $93,876, a nearly 4 percent gain since last year; Boston, $83,465, which also increased by about 4 percent; and the Baltimore/Washington area, at $81,750, at 2.3 percentIn its list of 16 metro areas, Detroit was at the bottom with an average tech salary of $67,271, a less than half-percent increase over last year. Salaries in San Diego were higher than Detroit, but it was one of three job markets to see a decline in salaries to $75,994, a drop of 4.3 percent. The others posting declines were Phoenix at $71,246 and down 4.97 percent, and Seattle, $79,636, down 0.19 percent.Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate.
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When it comes to the advancement of women in the workplace, progress is almost never sudden. But often it is steady.
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Scott Hall wants to spark a discussion, so he asks his students something bound to provoke a reaction: Do women want more out of marriage than men?
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Business & money: A hundred years ago there was a greater proportion of women working in manufacturing than there is today. By Ashley Seager.
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Beyond the tired cliches and sperm-and-egg basics taught in grade school science class, researchers are discovering that men and women are even more different than anyone realized.
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Two new research papers offer evidence that there is a growing happiness gap between men and women.
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Men would rather marry their female assistants than equal-ranking women or their supervisors, according to social psychologists.
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A lack of women in academic computer science positions as well as barriers to corporate advancement is creating a talent vacuum in the U.S., according to speakers at a conference on emerging technology taking place this week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Women who work are healthier than women who don't have jobs, suggests a study presented Aug. 16 at the American Sociological Association annual meeting in San Francisco. The University of Pennsylvania study concluded the health benefits that women derive from working aren't diminished by longer work hours or combining longer work hours with those of a spouse.