Are you attacked for your fashion? Gender bias at work
Fashion by Vivienne Westwood
How can you be the best fundraiser in the world?
It’s impossible of course. You’ll never know if you are or not, or who is. You’ll never know how much someone else had help in getting that major gift, or running that big event, you’ll never know if that big gift they got was the result of a nod from a board member that had […]
How you can get out of a workaholic rut
How can you build trust in your nonprofit?
“RICHARD WILKINSON: (With a large wage gap) almost everything gets worse: homicide rates, how kids get on at school, math and literacy scores, teenage birth rates, obesity. Mental illness is worse, how much people feel they can trust others, the size of prison populations, what proportion of the population are locked up, measures of social cohesion, how much people are involved in community life. Everything seems to get worse.
BILL MOYERS: Levels of trust among people are affected by the distribution of income?
RICHARD WILKINSON: I think it’s something that people have had an intuition about for centuries. They have often regarded inequality as divisive and socially corrosive. And our data shows that this intuition is much truer than any of us ever realized. We choose our friends from amongst our equals. People don’t feel so at ease with people who are much better off.
BILL MOYERS: Inequality makes strangers of us?
KATE PICKETT: That’s right. At one point, we wanted to call our book, “Inequality: The Enemy Between Us” because in a more unequal society, the social distances get stretched out between us. As the hierarchy gets steeper, social distances are greater, and it’s harder to trust.
Bullying bosses can cause employee suicide
Did you ever have a boss who didn’t say hello or goodbye to you, screamed, socially ostracized you in other ways, used scare tactics, or told you that you’d done something wrong when you hadn’t?
This video of Marlene’s Law tells the story of a woman whose boss terrorized her so much that she ultimately committed suicide.
Does your nonprofit have a gender asbestos problem?
Ms. Wittenberg-Cox says, “The real issue isn’t salaries. That is a symptom of a deeper issue: a massive corporate mis-adaptation to today’s talent realities and the subsequent inability to retain and develop women as well as men. I call this “gender asbestos.”