OK, I’m waaay past the traditional age for cat-calling and guys whistling at me, but it happened to me on yesterday. I was at a lunchtime business meeting and was mingling with the guests shortly before the meeting started. I had to excuse myself to take a phone call, and when I returned, I had to walk through a huddle of business men who were just standing around talking. I very politely and discreetly said “excuse me” and just slid through the huddle. Well, I guess that wasn’t enough for them, as I heard them say (and rather loudly),

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This has always been a hotly debated topic for years. Many people wonder why men and women are not treated equally in business as well as being compensated just as equally. Now as for the compensation part, we all have a long ways to go to ensure that things are leveled in any work situation we may be in. But as for being treated equally, that poses its own set of questions and challenges.
Take for instance:
All things equal between a female candidate and a male candidate, there is a job for an executive sales position that requires about 80% travel. …read more

I gotta be honest here. No matter how many times you tell me that affirmative action and quotas in hiring and school admissions are a good idea, I will never agree. “But aren’t you for equality?” Of course I am. “Don’t you want things to be fair?” Well, yeah, duh. But the only way hiring — or anything else, for that matter — will ever be completely equitable is for people to give no regard whatsoever to race or sex and focus solely on the credentials of the applicant.
Before we go further into this topic, let’s take care of …read more