Once again, I found this article searching through Google. This article starts off by giving facts such as “only 7%-9% of senior managers in Fortune 1000 firms are women (Korn-Ferry and Catalyst).” Wow. That’s very sad because just about half of the workforce in the U.S.
More often than not, women are starting to leave companies because of unwanted women in certain management positions. But these women are not heading home, they are going out and starting their own businesses and having major companies lose out on amazing amounts of talent, creativity and of course diversity.
The article then goes on to explaining what women can do to make themselves stronger and more known in the workforce. It gives good insight on networking with people as well as receiving feedback after performance of projects. The article also goes into talking about what managers should do to help promote gender differences in positive ways so everything is not always male-centered.
If you are a valuable female with great outside-of-the-box ideas working for a well-known company for many years, but have not been able to move up, would you stay with that company and try to work something out, or would you leave and start your own business? And why?
Jon Locke
It is intimidating for me to leave and start my own business, I would find people to help me, not necessarily do it all on my own, but that is just because of my personality type. If I honestly had ideas that I thought were good, I would first try to negotiate with the company I was currently with. If they won't give me the attention or compensation I believe is fair, I would start looking into other companies and see what they have to offer me. If all that fails, I would maybe considering starting a business, but I would have to exhaust several options before I would get to that point.
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