Management Women and the New Facts of Life Felice N. Schwartz

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Management Women and the New Facts of LifeFelice
N. Schwartz

• Women cost more to hire and retain than men (250
  more likely to quit jobs)
• Women plateau their careers
• Women tend to work episodically
• Women are socialized to have different
  perceptions of what is important

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• Employers need to find ways of lower cost
  employing women
• Gender differences to face Maternity and
  Perception of roles and Expectation of self and
  society
• Women child bearers and raisers
• Male breadwinners
• Women perceived as push and abrasive when
  competing with men

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• Modern reality requires new strategies
• Women who want careers should be identified and
  welcomed
• Women wanting families should be provided support
  and flexibility
• Accept that women will not know when the will
  return to work
• Women accepting flexibility and part time will
  have slower career advancement
• Corporations need to keep studying issues

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White Privilege and Male Privilege A Personal
Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through
Work in Womens StudiesPeggy McIntosh

• PRIVILEGE REFERS TO AN UNEARNED ENTITLEMENT OF
  CONFERRED DOMINANCE. THIS PRIVILEGE IS POSSIBLY
  UNKNOW TO THE INDIVIDUAL
• REQUIRES A DISTRIBUTION OF CULTURAL TURF TO
  SELECT GROUPS
• INDIVIDUALS HAVE PRIVELEDGES WHICH FALL TO THEM
  SIMPLY BY VIRTUE OF BEING MEN, WHITE OR
  HETROSEXUAL
• The effect is oppressive acts without intent
• Privilege is not fault of those to who it accrues
  but does provide a knapsack of use goods to
  travel around a society

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• SOME UNEARNED ENTITLEMENTS SHOULD BE KEPT (OWNING
  A HOME, COLLEGE EDUCATION)
• SOME SHOULD BE REMOVED

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Sexual HarassmentSusan M. Dodds

• SEXUAL HARASSMENT
• SEXUAL DISCRIMINATION
• MAY BENEFIT HARASSED
• P0WER IS THE ISSUE
• ATTITUDE, INTENTIONS AND EXPERIENCE DO NOT
  EXPLAIN THE ACTIONS
• IMPACT VERSUS INTENT
• REASONABLE WOMEN STANDARD