Should You Play the Role of June Cleaver or Miranda Priestly to Win at Work?

(Editor’s Note: If you are offended by the b-word, you might want to click away from this article.  There are a few choice curse words within this lesson. You nice girls might get a little offended.)

Whether women should play the nice girl role or act like a bitch in business is a debate as old as time itself.

As an empowered career woman you want your own slice of Aretha’s R-E-S-P-E-C-T pie.

But, you don’t know as a business strategy whether you should unleash your inner female dog or let your nice girl run free.

As more women enter the executive suite in record numbers, I ask you, who wins in business: the June Cleaver, baking-cookies-nice-girl, or the Miranda Priestly, Devil-Wears-Prada-acting bitch? Read the rest of this entry »

Top 10 Careers for Females in the U.S.

Looking for the best paying jobs for women? Although women make up nearly fifty percent of employees, they remain compellingly absent in upper management.

Taking into account the 500 biggest companies in the U.S. merely three percent of these have female CEOs.

While women comprise half of the population in the U.S. and of the 111th Congress less than 20 percent of representatives are female.

Women account for about half of the workforce, yet their earnings do not represent half of all wages paid, suggesting the inequality in earnings between men and women.  Read the rest of this entry »