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Ambitious, talented women executives would achieve far greater success in business if they could gain access to certain insider intelligence that they could put to work for themselves.
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Male dominated businesses have treated the Women’s Movement as a fad or “fashion” that was bumped aside by the next trend that blew into their Boardroom. (Remember re-engineering and how down-sizing became right-sizing?) Our Founder, Robert Monte spent over 17 years in Canadian board-rooms as a Senior VP, Board Corporate Secretary, COO, CEO and President. In that time frame, women were either conspicuous by their absence on Boards, or given token representation. His experience was that senior
management teams’ attitudes were not much more enlightened when it came to advancing talented women into senior executive roles.
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The ultimate proof of the lack of equality in the workplace is the lack of women CEOs. How many can you name?
According to CNNMoney.com, in October 2006, the 10 Best-paid US executives were all men, making about 2 to 3 times as much as
top-earning women executives.
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This trend extends to Canada, where women are severely under- represented in all top corporate leadership positions. “Overall, women remain largely excluded from the key jobs that signal corporate power and influence, despite comprising nearly half of the Canadian labour force and more than one third of all management roles,” said Deborah Gillis, Executive Director of Catalyst Canada.
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In April, 2007, Catalyst Canada released its 2006 Census of Women Corporate Officers and Top Earners in the FP500. They found, "While the proportion of women corporate officers continues to increase, the overall numbers of women in senior leadership roles has risen less than two sluggish percentage points across all Catalyst benchmarks since 2002." Read more
Unfortunately, law firms aren’t the only ones carrying these archaic male attitudes.
A e-week.com headline blared… "Former EMC saleswomen claim they were denied equal pay, forced from accounts and made to visit strip clubs" Read more
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