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...higher women climb in the corporate hierarchy, the greater the resistance, says Sonja Bischoff, a researcher at the University for Economy and Politics in Hamburg. "More and more women are getting entry-level management jobs, but when they want to move up, they feel discrimination, and it's real." Further discrimination can be found in their salaries. In a survey of executives in the third tier of management from the top, Bischoff found that 25% of males had incomes in excess of $100,000 while none had salaries below $40,000. Among women, 30% had salaries below...
...with seven other major corporations to offer a so-called cross-mentoring system in which high-ranking managers in one company offer advice to women managers in another firm. It's an effort to help them develop the kind of old-boy network that allows male managers to successfully climb the corporate ladder...
...Fujian, as well as five Bangladeshis and one Indian--not a green card among them. Finding proper papers will come. "I haven't had time to work that out yet," he says, implying it will not be that hard. Meanwhile, he is trying to learn English so he can climb out of the dishwashing level of the economy. He has already dreamed up a business plan to import crabs from China. And at the right time he plans to get married, to some Chinese woman who also came over by boat. "They are tough and don't cry much...
...Mingling was a challenge. The extraordinarily male-heavy room wasn’t opening up to us, especially after Bob decided to climb atop a coffee table and speak extemporaneously of the imperative nature of electing Conor. “What about freedom?!” I cheekily shouted out. Bob had no response, nor did the remainder of the room...
Shouts of encouragement and blasting music also helped the runners climb the infamous Heartbreak Hill--a steep part of the course in Newton...