What women want—And why you want women—In the workplace

Clerkin, Cathleen

doi:10.35613/ccl.2017.1073

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“…For instance, a 2014 Gallup Study (Badal, 2014) found that among over 800 business units in two different industries, gender diverse groups had better financial outcomes compared to groups dominated by one gender. A study by the Center for Creative Leadership, found that people who worked in organizations with a higher percentage of women felt more job satisfaction and organizational dedication and less work-related burnout (Clerkin, 2017).…”

Section: Elevating Womens Leadership In India: Issues and Insightsmentioning

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Elevating Women's Leadership in India: Issues and Insights

Wilson¹,

Clerkin²

2017

NHRD Network Journal

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is the Founding Executive Director, Genpact Center for Womens Leadership (GCWL), a first-of-its-kind corporate-academia partnership between Genpact and Ashoka University. A versatile 25-year veteran of the leadership development industry, she is also author of Developing Tomorrows Leaders Today: Insights from Corporate India (Wiley, 2010) and numerous book chapters and articles.At GCWL, her responsibilities included promoting womens leadership and gender equity in India through original research and seminal leadership programs for corporates, the social sector and university students. At the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®), she worked in the U.S., Singapore and India, directing strategic start-ups such as opening CCLs first Asia-Pacific campus in Singapore; launching the Asia Pacific unit for research, innovation and product development (RIPD); and designing the Asian Womens Initiatives and Network (AWIN) and The Woman Leader® (tWL®) program.Meena is the primary developer of the Experience Explorer card deck an easyto-use tool that applies decades of research on the 70-20-10 framework to make talent development rapid, systematic and intentional. She delivers popular conference keynotes and workshops on fortifying talent pipelines and developing leadership in organizations, with a special focus on the needs of professional women.Meena holds a Ph.D. in adult and organizational development from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an M.S. degree from Syracuse University in television-radio journalism, and a B.A. from Mills College in Oakland, CA.

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Section: Elevating Womens Leadership In India: Issues and Insightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Elevating Women's Leadership in India: Issues and Insights

Wilson¹,

Clerkin²

2017

NHRD Network Journal

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“…Women may also experience more rewarding work relations in female-dominated employment environments. Women tend to be more satisfied in women-dominated work contexts (Fricke & Beehr, 1992;Smart & Ethington, 1987) and rate their organizations higher under these conditions (Clerkin, 2017) whereas they are less satisfied in male-dominated workplaces, perhaps because they have higher expectations in these environments (Clark, 1997;Sloane & Williams, 2000).…”

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Job Satisfaction and Gender

2019

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Previous studies of job satisfaction and gender have had mixed results, with some finding that women enjoy greater satisfaction than men, and others no difference once other factors were accounted for. This study used data from the 2015 International Social Survey Programme to investigate if gender, country and work-based factors make a difference on employees' level of job satisfaction. Extrinsic rewards, intrinsic rewards, work relations and work-life balance rewards were examined. Overall there were no differences between women's and men's job satisfaction. In only one country was women's job satisfaction was significantly higher. Extrinsic outcomes were significantly lower for women.

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“…As well as being the ‘right thing to do’, the aforementioned Nordic model has been shown to have contributed considerably to economic growth, re-emphasizing the societal loss from inequity. Work by the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), the primary community of leading and emerging women entrepreneurs and executives in Silicon Valley, 10 has shown that greater senior female leadership improves perceived line management support, employee engagement and organisational dedication, whilst reducing staff burnout.…”

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