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...surveys Hunt analyzed let respondents indicate why they were working outside their field, suggesting options such as working conditions, pay, promotion opportunities, job location and family-related reasons. As it turned out, more than 60% of the women leaving engineering did so because of dissatisfaction with pay and promotion opportunities. More women than men left engineering for family-related reasons, but that gender gap was no different than what Hunt found in nonengineering professions. "It doesn't have anything to do with the nature of the work," says Hunt. (See iPhone apps for new moms...
...reasons related to pay and promotion is unclear. It is easy to assume discrimination or simply the prizing of stereotypically male behavior - like speaking out in meetings rather than building consensus behind the scenes. Hunt's study did not formally evaluate possible root causes. (See 10 ways your job will change in the near future...
...been a standard theme of commentary of late to say that Angela Merkel, Germany's Chancellor, could be the leader of Europe - but doesn't want the job. When Merkel took on much of the E.U., above all French President Nicolas Sarkozy, with her lonely, stubborn and ultimately victorious campaign against a Greek bailout, she became "Madame Non" in France, and Public Enemy No. 1 in Greece. At home, Joschka Fischer, the Foreign Minister of the government she ousted in 2005, gave her an F for an "extraordinary foreign policy disaster." Germany, he surmised, was no longer the "motor...
...York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. Habib said he was questioned for over five hours and was asked “have you ever been a terrorist?” to which he answered, “how long have you been doing this job? Has anyone ever answered ‘yes?...
After Commencement, the Class of 2010 will finally be setting off on their own, but exactly where they are going is another story. Lured to far-off lands, some seniors are going beyond American shores—from Hong Kong to Paris—to seize what the international job market has to offer...