http://www.womenonbusiness.com/new-us-women-in-business-statistics-released-by-catalyst/ Leading Site for Business Women Around the World Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:05:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.womenonbusiness.com/new-us-women-in-business-statistics-released-by-catalyst/comment-page-1/#comment-4304 Scrappy Kimberly Wiefling Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:24:36 +0000 http://womenonbusiness.com/equality/new-us-women-in-business-statistics-released-by-catalyst#comment-4304 After reviewing these statistics a thoughtful person must conclude that either women are inadequate to the task of business leadership, or this is the result of bias - whether accidental or purposeful, it really doesn't matter. I'm a physicist, and I look at the data to decide what is going on. This data tells me that the playing field for women is far from level. Research on selection of orchestra members, reported in Malcolm Gladwell's book "Blink", demonstrated that equal numbers of women and men are selected when the judges don't know whether the musicians playing are men or women. When they DO know, men are preferentially selected. Let's not delude ourselves, women have a higher hill to climb than men to get to the top. That's part of the reason women are starting their own businesses. No one can stop us from being the CEO of our own business! Stay Scrappy! After reviewing these statistics a thoughtful person must conclude that either women are inadequate to the task of business leadership, or this is the result of bias – whether accidental or purposeful, it really doesn’t matter. I’m a physicist, and I look at the data to decide what is going on. This data tells me that the playing field for women is far from level. Research on selection of orchestra members, reported in Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Blink”, demonstrated that equal numbers of women and men are selected when the judges don’t know whether the musicians playing are men or women. When they DO know, men are preferentially selected. Let’s not delude ourselves, women have a higher hill to climb than men to get to the top. That’s part of the reason women are starting their own businesses. No one can stop us from being the CEO of our own business! Stay Scrappy!

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