The Sky’s the Limit: A Woman’s Guide to Advancement

Did you know??

• Women today make up almost half the workforce!
• Women lead the trend for a higher educated workforce. In the last ten years they have received more associate, bachelor and masters degrees.
• 75% of working women are in their child bearing years
• Women with children under six are the fastest growing segment of the workforce.
• Women earn higher GPAs in both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
• Both medical and law schools are about 50% women (U of Colorado, Boulder graduated the first law class with more women than men in the history of the US)
• Women earn on average 77 cents to the dollar of what men earn.
• In 2004, an estimated 47.7%(10.6 million) of all privately held businesses were 50% or more owned by women. These firms generated 2.46 trillion in sales and employed 19.1 million people.

Taken from: Portraits of Diversity by Julie O’Mara and Catalyst

• To understand women’s advantage in the workplace.
• What women want men to change and what men want women to change?
• How power operates and when normal rules don’t apply.
• The hazards of “female speak.”
• To understand how to handle disruptive interruptions.
• It is what she doesn’t say that means a lot: How Nonverbal Messages can Undermine a Woman’s Credibility
• Learn how to network across the gender gap.
• Why women need to advocate for themselves.
• Measure power by how much support they are able to give others.
• Think work decisions should be shared.
• Focus on mastering job, increasing skills and involving others.
• Avoid conflict to keep the peace.
• Be seen as more approachable.