...WOMEN IN BUSSINESS For years, working women found they had little chance of getting a top job. The bosses of big business were nearly always men. They were often good at managing money but bad at managing people. Most of them were good at selling traditional products but bad at creating new ones. Many of them thought in the same way, said the same kinds of things and wore the same dark suits. But in recent years, business has changed. There are now opportunities for people to think differently and to manage companies in new ways. At last, women have been able to test new ideas and try new ways of working. Although many women still have problems in the workplace, more and more are reaching the top in their business lives. Number of businesswomen grows every year. More that 50% of students in the world are women. Women play a more important role in the world's economy than before. There are countries, where the number of female entrepreneurs is bigger than the number of male entrepreneurs (e.g. Switzerland, Singapore, Brazil etc.). For the most part it happens in countries of Eastern Asia, Africa and Latin America, because of the ever growing markets. There are a lot of outstanding examples of women, who have achieved everything they have by themselves. My favorite example is Anita Roddick, the founder of worldwide company “The Body Shop”. Her story is very interesting. Anita never thought about a life as a businesswoman. When she left school, she studied to be a teacher...
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...Japan women Nowdays women in Japan have the same rights officialy and are an eaqual part of the society, but the reality is a little bit different. The history of Japan and their culture play a big role in how women are seen and treated as employees and business people. Womens role started majorly changing during the second world war when 2.5 million men or 17 % of their working population were a part of the armed forces. Women found themselves being fully in charge of their households, but portion of Japanese women had to work men jobs, coalmines, arms factories, steel mills. In 1950ies women not exoected to work for longer then 3.5 years until they “retired”, meaning that they get married or get pregnant and dedicate their live to being a housewife. 1980 women were discriminized at their work place, even tho the law stated that people have to get the same pay for the same job regardless of the sex, women got only slightly above 50% of what men made. The women role keeps on evolving in the Japanese society. The birth rate in Japan is below 2 per family, which means that the population is decreasing and Japan will have to reach out to women to fill the vacant job positions. Almost half of the population that graduates from an university in Japan are women, but interstingly enought only 67% of this population have jobs. The working women in Japan are more than twice as likely to quit their jobs willingly than american women. They do so because they feel that they...
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...Executive Summary In our modern society there are some very simple leisure activities that cannot be enjoyed by a traditional Arab woman because of cultural restrictions and religious influences. One of these is going to the beach especially when it is public and without the family around, a missed opportunity to enjoy the sun, sea and the sand. Also, most women tend to visit some salons in order to enjoy themselves. The concept of creating a lifestyle women club that will cater to the needs of a traditional Arab woman in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia stemmed from the idea of summer fun at the beachfront, perfect getaway and relaxation, fitness and wellness, makeovers and entertainment, and other social activities designed specifically without necessarily going against traditional customs and beliefs. Thus, the lifestyle women club has the objective of improving the quality of life and adding value to each member and guests of the proposed club. Market study reveals that the all-female center is a new unsaturated niche market in Saudi Arabia. Only a small number of establishments offer facilities for spa and leisure activities. Health clubs for women are rare. Thus creating a gap in the market and providing business opportunities for entrepreneurs. The first in the region, the all-female lifestyle women club will be strategically located in Alkhobar Halfmoon coastal area. The target markets consist of the middle class females in the eastern province of Saudi...
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...assigned positions in a family that women take care of kids and household, while men work to support their families. However, in the film The Intern, Jules is the one in her family who goes out to work, and her husband Matt quits his job as a marketing manager and become a home dad. Thorough such an arrangement in Jules’ family, although Jules has more time for her business, she still fails to find a balance between her career and family, which eventually results in a cracked marriage. Matt is unfaithful to Jules, meeting with another woman secretly because he finds himself much more likes a man along with a normal woman instead of Jules, a successful woman. After knowing that, Jules regards that she is the only one that should be responsible for their cracked marriage because Matt is placed in a position as a home dad through her unusual success in business. American films seldom criticize on working men because men can always find the balances between work and family; however, this film through Matt’s shortcoming indicates that Jules, a working woman, fails to protect her man and family. It is hard for a working woman to find the balance between work and home life, and Jules also fails to create that balance at this point; therefore, the film actually shows a stereotypical view of working women that women are unable to balance their work and home...
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...company thinks women who is light-skinned are pretty. A light-skinned woman have nice long hair, make-up is flawless, nails is well kept, clothes are the latest business suits. The woman might not have all of the qualifications but she will learn the ropes of the business. So they hired her and to top if off her salary is the highest and comes with a nice package. In back in the bosses mind he hopes that she can catch on quick, but he will show her off to all his business partners. Now will a dark-skinned woman, who have all the qualifications they will not hired her, because the company does not see her pretty enough. They see a dark-skinned woman as greasy, nappy hair, and ghetto, and that’s to get to the point. This beautiful lady that the company will not hired, will have been a great asset to the company. The lady would have given 110% of her time, and even had ideas on how to make the company grow, she wouldn’t be concern about when is pay day and how long is her lunch so she could go the nail shop. Some women have a hard time dating, because some men will not date a woman who is dark-skinned. I think some men just want a pretty girl on his arm. They don’t even care about her just show her a good time. Some of these women might have low self esteem and really don’t care how the man treats her just as long he keep her happy with all the gifts. If a man feels really feels this way with the woman he will not introduce her to his family, closet friends, nor will he...
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...very small capital. Though her parental home is in Dhaka but she was born in Chittagong. Her father Dewan Badiul Alam used to stay there in connection with employment. She had passed her childhood at Dhaka’s garden house in Malibag. After passing Secondary and Higher Secondary Examinations from Siddheswari Girls School and College, Kaniz Almas Khan accomplished graduation from Eden College. Then she took training on Beatification from famous beautician of Bangladesh, Zerin Ashgar Khan. Later took training from Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, China and Bangkok. With a deep passion on beautification of human being and a great wish to do something different and big, she started her journey in the beauty industry. In her journey to become a successful woman entrepreneur in the beauty industry of Bangladesh, she got all types of necessary supports from her mother, in laws, husband and peer groups. Then from innate eagerness to beauty and with the inspiration of the members of the family, make-up art of Kaniz Almas commenced, in the year 1990 with the Beauty Parlour named Glamour. She opened beauty salon Glamour at her residence in Kalabagan in 1990, with five workers and an initial investment of Tk 2 lakh which she borrowed from Micro Industries Development Assistance and Services (MIDAS). Giving value to the authentic, limitless love and ever-increasing customer demand of the people...
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...520’s...Jeans for Curves Hasani Gorden Keller Graduate School of Management Market Summary Fashion is today incomplete without denim. Denim comes in all forms, looks and washes to match with every dress. It would be difficult to believe that the same denim was originally employed in clothing for the pants and overalls worn by miners on the west coast (US). A number of technological factors have contributed to making denim the fashion icon that it is today including vast improvements in spinning, weaving, and finishing. One of the most important parts of creation of the beautiful denim jeans is the washing. Washing plays such an important part in the denim chain because of the effects that the consumers are looking for on their jeans. Denim jeans have almost become a necessity in the present scenario. By age, jeans wear sales have increased significantly in the 13-17 and 25-34 age groups. By volume men's/boys jeans shipment market is more than that of women's/girls jeans shipments in US. Denim jeans make up one of the most fragmented, but also one of the most lucrative sectors of the apparel industry, with products aimed at men, women, teens and infants.(In Text Cit) Denim jeans accounted for US$5.2bn of the US$15bn bottoms market in 2006, according to report author Koncept Analytics, but a decline in the market in 2007 is seen as the start of a downward trend that is likely to continue in coming years. Sales of women's jeans among 25 to 34 year-olds fell a sizeable 15...
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...Women’s role : homemaker or work? Women nowadays play many roles in their daily life. Unlike in the past, women now are more educate and seek for achievement and success in their career. The 2012 FORBES list out the world’s most powerful women and these 20 leaders represent the year’s most powerful women in business. At the top of the list, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg ranks as the most powerful woman in business. 30-year IBM veteran Virginia Rometty who was tapped as CEO and becoming the first woman ever to lead the century-old tech giant with more than $100 billion in revenues is ranked at No. 4. Former eBay Chief Meg Whitman was ranked in No.6. We can see that women are sometimes more capable in a business world. However, a recent report in Turkey shows that women quite their job after they went into a marriage. Maybe because of they can’t take the balance between their job and take care of their family. This problem would become more obvious when they have children. Children need good care and full attention from parents to ensure that there are in the right path. Parents play an important role in educates their children to behave in proper. Many cases on media show the impact of both working parents that took too less care on their children. So women are being encouraged to be a homemaker in such case. There are many different arguments about a woman’s role, whether to work or just be a homemaker. It’s just like what I’ve mentioned earlier, women now are seek more...
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...Hayworth’s star quality is seen in the technicolor musical Cover Girl. She plays the protagonist, Rusty Parker, a woman who works at a nightclub and aspires to become a dancer on Broadway. The film exemplifies the idea of womanhood and labor during World War II. Parker is a dainty, feminine woman who works to achieve her dreams. Parker visits the office of modeling agency, although she initially rejected, the editor of the magazine, John Coudair sees her as timeless beauty. Parker reminds Coudair of a lost love. She fulfills her dreams of starring on Broadway with her connections with Coudair. This is an example of cosmetic femininity aligning with labor. Parker uses her feminine beauty as a tool to establish her career as a dancer (87). On...
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...FAST SCHOOL OF BUSINESS BBA 09 (N) Assignment # 1 MARY K ASH TRAITS Personality traits | Business traits | * Never quit attitude | * Creative and innovative- introduced innovative sales techniques | * Dedicated towards her work | * Dynamic sales ability | * Leadership | * A good motivator for her employees | * Intelligent and passionate | * Role model for many women in US | * Confident and full of enthusiasm | * Visionary entrepreneur | | * Good speaker | ANALYSIS Mary K Ash was a smart and excellent sales woman. She was a woman who worked hard in a male-dominated society of US. If we compare this trait of women in US and women of Pakistan, there exists a difference; people in our society would not like women to go around the houses to do sales because there’s a risk involved in this case, especially when it comes to women in our society. Women like Mary K Ash was indeed a strong woman who dedicated her life for the betterment of women in US society, she was a source of inspiration and motivator for her employees. However, the trend in our society is changing; many woman entrepreneurs are emerging from Pakistan, one example is Benazir Bhutto who stepped out in a man’s world and created a new path for women. Although she is not with us anymore but she still remains a source of inspiration and serves as a role model for many people. Coming back to Mary K Ash, she possessed magnificent qualities; people related...
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...positions and have the same opportunities as men? Why is it so uncommon for a woman to be CEO? Are women compensated equally for doing the same job as their male counterparts? If a woman is older than 40 does she have as many opportunities as men the same age? Is there still gender discrimination occurring in the workplace? These are all questions to ponder, even now in the year 2011. There is much information available on women leaders and the impact they are having on the top ‘Fortune’ 1000 companies. The information is varied and there are some mixed messages about whether women are treated equal to their male counterparts and making progress. It does seem that diversity in the workplace is becoming more the norm and creating a shift to allow women more opportunities to develop their leadership skills and to compete for higher-level positions. Historically male dominated industries such as Engineering and Information Technology seem to be seeing more women managers. I believe that corporations that have diversity have more innovation and are more efficient as a result, so they should be more profitable. One of the top leading non-profit organizations is Catalyst, it was established in 1962 by Felice Schwartz to promote diversity and inclusion for women in the workplace (Wikipedia). According to the Catalyst website (www.catalyst.org ) it’s mission is expanding opportunities for women and business. Catalyst conducts research globally and provides it to the public, the media...
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...Extra Credit Assignment 2 The world is full of entrepreneurs who have created a business or product that they believed in. The industry of modeling is no different. The article from Forbes.com identifies a plus size woman, Ashley Graham, who created the healthy image of women to be pictured on the front cover of Sport Illustrated Magazine along with her own lingerie line. The article is written by Susan Adams who demonstrated a unique take on the everyday interviewing process which relates to the concepts of interviewing biases that we have discussed in class. The first concept that the article shows is about the business model with a closer look at two of the nine components; value proposition and customer segment. The article not only shows how entrepreneurs’ ideas come in all shapes and sizes but so do their owners. Graham not only is the first plus size woman on the cover of Sports Illustrated, but she has produced her own clothing line that has over $1.6 million in sales. She uses the business model to segment her market and assess the needs and values of her customers. The first step in the business model that I will be examining is the value proposition and how it is all about satisfying the needs of your customers and solving the problems that occur. This concept allows Graham to connect with her customers on a unique level by offering them a clothing/ lingerie line for those women who are plus size. She solves the plus sized women’s problem of finding lingerie by...
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...comparison with all these individual women whether they are the only woman director on board or whether they are among other women directors on board. However, it’s obvious that when the board only holds one woman the level of office difficulty is higher. The three stories of female board directors where they are the only females on board are very common. These women set a picture showing that they have to give 150% in order to be heard as well as a make a difference. Women who serve as the only female on boards are almost pushed out of the way, their opinions seem to not really matter. Their voices seem not to be heard either. The first woman states that: “You can make a point that is valid, and minutes later a male could make the same pointâ€, however the male will get congratulated where as the female will not. She also mentions that until the males in the board room realize that the females are not going anywhere, the respect is not given. Basically, the women have to work harder than the men to fit in, establish themselves as well as have their voices heard. The second lady and third lady confirm what the first female director says. They each state that there is a minimum of conversation between male and female board directors and very little interaction. All three of these women state that it is very difficult for women to be accepted in these board meetings and decision making processes. One woman even compares it to a “catch...
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...Reaction paper to The Wife of Bath Prologue I love The Wife of Bath. The tale features a character that seems to resemble a feminist. But in Chaucer’s time, feminism was something completely crazy and the pilgrims reacted negatively to it. Even though the pilgrims thought she was bonkers, The Wife of Bath had no fear about displaying herself as she really was. She wasn't ashamed of the fact she had been married five times, and was about to marry again. She hid nothing. She was fierce. In the prologue that I read, the pilgrim did not see the Wife of Bath as an upstanding woman, but she didn't desire to be seen as what one would call an “upstanding woman.” Almost as soon as she began speaking in the prologue, she explained that she had gone through five husbands, and she was on the look out for a sixth. The Wife says that she married for money: "...I’ll tell the truth. Those husbands I had, three of them were good and two of them bad. The three I call “good” were rich and old.” The Wife even goes on saying that she didn’t value her husbands’ love. Then again, why should she have to? She received everything her female heart desired: money, control, and power. She swears if all women were be the controlling factors in marriage, they too would gain their husbands’ money. The The Wife for Bath's character reminds me of many women I know, but one really sticks out at the moment, and that's Blanche Deboroe from the 80s sitcom “The Golden Girls.” The Wife of Bath claims that if women...
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...Modern times have witnessed an array of changes in societal activities. Among them the most significant and pertinent is woman liberation and empowerment. Modern women have traded into almost all spheres and have proved themselves which were previously the exclusive domain of their male counterparts. Endowed with famous female institution that helps them make the right choices even in situations where experience and logic fail, women have innate flair for entrepreneurship. They are natural networks and relationship builders, forging powerful bonds and nurturing relationship with clients and employees alike. They are more inclined to seek out mentors and develop supportive teams. Women entrepreneurs need to be landed for their increased utilization of modern technologies increased investment, finding a niche in the export market creating a sizable employment for others and setting the trend for other entrepreneurs in the organized sector. Gender equality and economic development go hand in hand. The emergence of women entrepreneurs and their contribution be national economy is quite visible in India. They now constitute around 10% of the total number of entrepreneurs with a rapidly increasing trend. The growing recognition that the women have unique talents which could be harnessed for development, and for creating employment opportunities for others who are not suited to an entrepreneurial career, developing women as entrepreneur has become an important and integral...
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