Women In The Workplace

By Stephanie Gaspary, director of social strategy and creative services, CareerBuilder According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' data book on women in the labor force, women have made significant progress in the areas of educational achievement and earnings over the past 40 years. Labor-force participation ...

While Sheryl Sandberg's feminist tome has elicited criticism from some women, interestingly, at least some male business leaders have been supportive of her message. First, Henry Blodget, founder of Business Insider, exhorted people to read her book. And now, according to a report by All Things Digital, John ...

By Parija Kavilanz NEW YORK -- April Senase is at the front end of a potential job boom: women in manufacturing. Senase, 35, is a trailblazer. She has worked numerous factory jobs for 13 years -- often as the first, or only, woman on the production floor. She makes nearly $40 an hour, with overtime, ...

When Emma Barnett was cleaning her house last weekend, she picked up her boyfriend's pants, and noticed the laundry tag. It advised to wash the chinos inside out in warm water, to use only non-chlorine bleach, and to avoid ironing the print. "Or---" it adds at the bottom, "GIVE IT TO YOUR WOMAN, IT'S HER ...

The "Mancession" has been, in many ways, an appropriate moniker for the last few years. With construction and manufacturing -- two male dominated industries -- particularly battered in the recession, 6.1 million men found themselves unemployed, over double the number of women. But new findings from the ...

Women's workplace attire has been a contentious issue ever since women entered the workplace. After all, women are under social pressure to look sexually desirable, which can sometimes conflict with the office pressure to look professional. A new study in Britain offers up an answer to this clash: choose ...

Sixty-four percent of single men say they are more productive at work when they are in a relationship, compared with less than half of women, according to a survey conducted by the popular online dating community Zoosk. Dating and sex and gender are wrapped up in so many myths it's easy to come up with ...

Wal-Mart's reputation among women has taken a battering in the last decade, embroiled in a class action lawsuit on behalf of 1.6 million female employees, the biggest civil rights case in history. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately rejected the suit this summer. The female workers didn't have enough in ...

Only five women graced Forbes' the World's Most Powerful People list last year (German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Indian political leader Sonia Gandhi in the Top 10), a showing poor enough for 2010 to dishearten even the most gung-ho feminist. With this backdrop, Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women list is a ...