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Selling Women Short
Rocked by a flurry of high-profile sex discrimination lawsuits in the 1990s, Wall Street was supposed to have cleaned up its act. It hasn't.Selling Women Shortis a powerful new indictment of how America's financial capital has swept enduring discriminatory practices under the rug.
Wall Street is supposed to be a citadel of pure economics, paying for performance and evaluating performance objectively. People with similar qualifications and performance should receive similar pay, regardless of gender. They don't. Comparing the experiences of men and women who began their careers on Wall Street in the late 1990s, Louise Roth finds not only that women earn an average of 29 percent less but also that they are shunted into less lucrative career paths, are not promoted, and are denied the best clients.
Selling Women Shortreveals the subtle structural discrimination that occurs when the unconscious biases of managers, coworkers, and clients influence performance evaluations, work distribution, and pay. In their own words, Wall Street workers describe how factors such as the preference to associate with those of the same gender contribute to systematic inequality.
Revealing how the very systems that Wall Street established ostensibly to combat discrimination promote inequality,Selling Women Shortcloses with Roth's frank advice on how to tackle the problem, from introducing more tangible performance criteria to curbing gender-stereotypical client entertaining activities. Above all, firms could stop pretending that market forces lead to fair and unbiased outcomes. They don't.
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How more affluence has changed home life
[Dalton Conley], a social sciences professor at New York University, makes a compelling case for what we have sacrificed on our way to greater wealth. While the upswing of women in the work force has raised family incomes, moms aren't around as much anymore to cook, clean or sit by contentedly while Dad indulges in his weekend hobby, whether it's golf or a pro football game. If there's a weakness to Conley's argument, it's not his fault. Clearly, he wrote this book before the economy began to tank last fall, and some readers might think that undermines his arguments.
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Too many of us should be elsewhere; Competing demands make people anxious
A It's a society in which we are increasingly anxious that we should be somewhere where we are not. If you're at the office late, you're stressed out that you should be at home with your kids and spouse. If you're home with the kids, you're very conscious of the five messages on your BlackBerry that require immediate work attention. We are increasingly connected to elsewhere and that creates a new ethic and a new social landscape. A There is no dinner time. Homework spills into dinner. Videogames spill into homework. Dinner is in between meetings. We're too busy to cook, so we often eat takeout. We outsource to the marketplace. We're an extreme case. A I'm too busy to notice. I'm sure I'm missing smelling some sort of metaphorical rose.
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Free lunches at the Googleplex
Author Dalton Conley visits \"Googleplex,\" U.S.A., and finds a compelling...
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KEVIN COURTNEY
Ah, that's the paradox. With technology allowing us to perform tasks much faster, we thought we'd all be finishing work by 11am and going off to play golf for the rest of the day. Instead, we've ended up with more tasks to do - the workload has increased to fill up the time available. And, thanks to e-mail and mobile technology, people are available 24/7. According to American sociologist Dalton Conley, work and leisure have been drifting together like tectonic plates since the baby boom years of the 1950s. In his book, Elsewhere USA, Conley claims that changes in the economy, the family and technology since the 1950s have given rise to \"intraviduals\", a new breed of professionals who are not only juggling multiple demands on their attention from all kinds of outside stimuli, but are also juggling multiple selves, thanks to the number of roles they have to play in their lives.
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Living in the here and now an elusive memory
Professor and sociologist [Dalton Conley] says that, for today's workers, work is life. Because of the \"information age,\" computers, Blackberrys, and instant communication, and because we've come to feel that we should always be doing something highly productive, we can't slow down. We've become a society that thinks we should be Elsewhere at all times. If you're looking for a business book that you can breeze through in a day or so, don't look here. \"Elsewhere, U.S.A.\" is one of those slim books that packs inside its covers a lot to digest. Through stories, history, and an examination of sociological factors, author Dalton Conley lays to rest many modern societal myths. He shows why our economy is the way it is and how the have-nots in America might have it better.
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SIZING UP WOMEN'S PROSPECTS
New York University researchers have found that obesity significantly decreases a woman's family income, chance of marrying and odds of marrying well. \"Women's body mass significantly affects their economic well-being, their occupational prestige, family income and marital status,\" the study says. But overweight men face no such obstacles - in fact, overweight men's wives tend to earn more, the researchers found.
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