And in any case that might not always be a good thing according to the research of Bacon, Burat and Rann on the dark side of emotional intelligence reported on the British Psychological Society blog.
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
Are women more emotionally intelligent than men?
We tend to assume so, but Daniel Goleman qualifies that somewhat in Psychology Today.
And in any case that might not always be a good thing according to the research of Bacon, Burat and Rann on the dark side of emotional intelligence reported on the British Psychological Society blog.
And in any case that might not always be a good thing according to the research of Bacon, Burat and Rann on the dark side of emotional intelligence reported on the British Psychological Society blog.
Forbes on International Women's Day
The gender pay gap is widening not just in the West, but in China, where many of my postgraduate students will return to work. Margie Worrell reflects on what can be done by women to help themselves and what else they might need. The article has a video embedded on whether equality is achievable.. but if you're impatient it's below.Women own your power
Is equality achievable?
They just don't get it, do they .... or do they?
My other country, Australia, managed, albeit briefly, to have a female Prime Minister. But the Liberal National Party in Queensland have apparently gone one further by holding their IWD lunch in a Men Only club.
Which reminds me of the time my lovely late post-feminist friend, Prof. Heather Hopfl, was invited by a publisher to receive an award for best paper in a gender journal at the Reform Club in London. On arrival, she was informed that she would have to wait, as it was necessary for her to be "signed in by a male member". "Oh really" she responded, with a voice that you could pour on porridge,"can't I use a pen like everyone else?"
Which reminds me of the time my lovely late post-feminist friend, Prof. Heather Hopfl, was invited by a publisher to receive an award for best paper in a gender journal at the Reform Club in London. On arrival, she was informed that she would have to wait, as it was necessary for her to be "signed in by a male member". "Oh really" she responded, with a voice that you could pour on porridge,"can't I use a pen like everyone else?"International Women's Day 2015
International Women's Day 2015 Home
Why Can't Women Get Funding in Silicon Valley?
Although the geeky-blokey-nerdy hi-tech firms of the valley seem to have finally woken up to gender issues regarding the composition of their workforces, venture capitalists are still reluctant to give them money.
Are Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists Hiding Gender Inequality of Opportunity?
But although only 4.4% of VC funded companies are female led, and men are 40% more likely to get support for their projects, some women do succeed. Six of them tell how they did it here.
Sex and Power 2014
The most recent update of this report focused only on politics and local government, but only in the European Parliament have any significant gains been made in women's representation since the report started. Download here.
And although the FTSE 100 still shows that only 17.3% of its directors are women, that's way better than the FTSE 250 (12%), which itself pips Amazon.
Taking the Other Perspective
Quite a while since the last post, but doing another guest lecture this term so here are a few updates... first an imaginative French film by Eleonore Pourriat that gives men the chance to experience what it might be like if the power differentials in society were inverted, and matriarchy simply mirrored patriarchy.
Oppressed Majority
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