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Rebecca Knight How working long hours affects the wage gap

September 1, 2011 11:19 am by Rebecca Knight
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In the past 30 years, US women have become more educated, outperforming men in university graduation rates. During that time, the disparity between the percentages of women and men working full-time has shrunk considerably too – and yet the pay gap persists, a topic this blog has tackled in the past.

According to a new study by sociologists from Indiana University and Cornell University, one of the biggest contributing factors to the wage gap is the phenomenon of “overworking” – which means working 50 hours a week or more. (more…)

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Liz Bolshaw A room of one’s own

August 4, 2011 11:57 am by Liz Bolshaw
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In Virginia Woolf’s famous essay of 1929,  the author argued that a women needed financial independence and “a room of her own” to be able to write (as well as men, was the inference).

The line now is that women need flexibility to be able to participate fully in the employment market, which explains why more and more women are now choosing to work from home. (more…)

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Liz Bolshaw Want to get ahead? Cover that cleavage, says research

July 22, 2011 10:18 am by Liz Bolshaw
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A few days ago, The Sun reported on a survey undertaken by Stylecompare.co.uk, a fashion website, that found that about six out of 10 bosses cited women showing too much cleavage as the ultimate fashion offence.  (more…)

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Rebecca Knight Why working mothers need a flexible approach

July 18, 2011 1:21 pm by Rebecca Knight
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After I had my first baby, I was a wreck about returning to work. I was so tired from the middle-of-the-night feedings and the tormented crying jags that I could not imagine how on earth I would function again as a professional. But I was also so infatuated with my daughter that I could not imagine being away from her for nine hours a day.  (more…)

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Rebecca Knight Workplace flexibility makes a comeback

July 12, 2011 12:56 pm by Rebecca Knight
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Workplace flexibility – also known as flexitime – is seen as key to helping companies recruit and retain working mothers. But flexitime is also often code for the “mummy track”, a professional path that offers mothers certain benefits, yet provides fewer opportunities for advancement.  (more…)

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Liz Bolshaw Public versus private

March 31, 2011 4:03 pm by Liz Bolshaw
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The UK Press Complaints Commission last month ruled that no one using Twitter can have a “reasonable expectation” of privacy. (more…)

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Liz Bolshaw

Liz Bolshaw is a business journalist and editor. She has been a successful book publisher, online editor, magazine editor and publisher.

She was launch editor of the Europe-wide online community Entrepreneur Country, has published magazines for PwC, 3i, dunhill and Bafta, and launched The Sharp Edge, a magazine for and about entrepreneurs, with Duncan Bannatyne. She is a regular contributor to Thomson Reuters’ Venture Capital Journal.

Her last project for the Financial Times was as editor of the paper’s Business Education magazine.

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Rebecca Knight is a freelance journalist based in Boston. She writes regularly for the FT on business education, entrepreneurship, and management.

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Andrew Hill is an associate editor and the management editor of the FT. He was City editor of the FT and editor of the daily Lombard column on British business and finance from September 2006 to December 2010.

He was the FT’s financial editor from June 2005 to September 2006, with overall responsibility for coverage of companies and markets. Before becoming financial editor, he was the FT’s comment & analysis editor, in charge of the paper’s opinion and features pages.

From 1999 to 2003, he was the FT’s New York bureau chief. He joined the FT in 1988 and has also worked as foreign news editor, UK companies reporter and correspondent in Brussels and Milan.

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