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Male Middle Managers: Linchpins of Gender Parity at Work

Many CEOs recognize gender equality as an important strategic priority. However, top-level strategic priorities can be undermined if male middle managers display or enable gender bias through the type of small-scale everyday organizational practices that often go unnoticed… and become accepted as the way things are. As a result, male middle managers are the linchpin […]

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Millennials 6: Attitudes Differ Based on Age and Gender-Sometimes

A new worldwide study of nearly 20,000 Millennials from around the world revealed the vast diversity of a generation that is often mistakenly treated as a homogeneous group with one mind. The survey, co-sponsored by the INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute, the HEAD Foundation and Universum, highlights differences among Millennials from different regions of the world. […]

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Six Disruptive Demographic Trends and What They Mean for the Workplace

According to Jim Johnson of University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, the major demographic trends transforming America today are unprecedented — so unprecedented that he calls these trends “disruptive demographics.”  Based on on-going analyses of statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor, Internal Revenue Service and other governmental agencies, Johnson, who is […]

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How Political Correctness Increases Creativity in Mixed-Sex Teams

Conventional wisdom has it that diversity helps creativity, in that people in homogenous groups are similar to one another with similar ideas and therefore less divergent thinking occurs. Also most research into group creativity assumes that creativity is unleashed by removing conventional constraints. This research, from Professor Jennifer Chatman of the UC Berkeley Haas School […]

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Why Women Who Blend Gender and Professional Identities Are Better Negotiators

Why are some women negotiators better than others? The answer may lie in whether or not women believe that their gender and professional identities are compatible or not. Women who believe their gender and professional roles are compatible — women who are in the social science terminology “high on gender/professional identity integration,” or GPII, are […]

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Retaining Women in the Workplace

According to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics, the participation rate for women in the labour force was down from 60.3% in 2000, to 57.6% in 2012. This was despite the fact that women weathered the recent recession better than men, because of the majority of them were employed in ‘recession-proof’ industries, like health, education, […]

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