Saturday, September 4, 2010

Beware the Gender Gap in the Workplace!

October 21, 2009 by Ron Stout  
Filed under Work

A menacing gender gap is present in the corporate workplace, and it is collectively costing companies hundreds of millions of dollars in top line revenue, operating expenses, and bottom line growth.  Gender-related challenges impact sales behavior, management styles and effectiveness, co-worker interactions and performance, even customer care.  the American workplace and workforce is at the [...]

June Cleaver Has a Briefcase?

September 11, 2009 by Ron Stout  
Filed under Work

Why do so many women want figuratively to strap on the strap-on and smoke a stogie with the guys?  Women are wearing suits and ties to the office, sending men flowers, and have their own mortgages.  Meanwhile, men are flight attendants, nurses, and administrative assistants.  Guys are waxing, using skin bronzers and getting facials, manicures, [...]

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Sotomayor is a Racist?

August 19, 2009 by Ron Stout  
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“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male.”  Yeah, yeah, yeah, and blah, blah, blah.  We’ve heard about this ad nauseam.  Finally, Senator Lindsey Graham had the balls to say what others only think, that as [...]

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Get In the Foxhole Damn It – You’re a Girl!!

August 12, 2009 by Ron Stout  
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Women are operating from more double standards than Barack Obama’s healthcare proposal.  As but one example, women are entering the military in increasing numbers but they are specifically not assigned to infantry, tank, or submarine duty.  Why not? 
David, twenty, has already been on the front line during two tours of duty to Iraq.  He asks [...]

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4.5 Million Men Lose Their Jobs!

August 5, 2009 by Ron Stout  
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Men are losing jobs faster than Elizabeth Taylor loses husbands.  Of the 5.7 million jobs lost in the United States since December of 2007, the official start date of the current recession, just shy of eighty percent of them have been to men.  Is there something sexist about that? 
Way back in the late sixties, second [...]

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