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The question then becomes why women engineers feel so stifled when it comes to pay and promotion. Hunt ran a slew of statistical tests to see if she could detect any patterns. She did. Women also left fields such as financial management and economics at higher than expected rates. The...
How, exactly, being in a majority-male environment leads women to leave for reasons related to pay and promotion is unclear. It is easy to assume discrimination or simply the prizing of stereotypically male behavior - like speaking out in meetings rather than building consensus behind the scenes. Hunt's study...
Not only did deal-driven Toyota score big, so did laggards like General Motors, which stayed skimpy on incentives. GM's overall sales were up 21%, but sales increased 43% for its four core brands - Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC and Buick - that survived the company's bankruptcy.
It is possible that the public will not fall on the iPad, as I did, like lions on an antelope. Perhaps they will find the apps and the iBooks too expensive. Maybe they will wait for more fully featured later models. But for me, my iPad is like a gun...
In the previous three years, she had watched the toads increase in number with the waxing of the moon. But last year was different. The moon grew from crescent to gibbous, and suddenly the toads were gone. "It went from there being 90 to 100 toads down to six, and...