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Notes from the WIMnet Chair
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Professional development – don’t ask, don’t get!
You’d love to attend the program or workshop, but you are dreading the conversation with your manager, director or Board – whoever it is who approves your professional development. If you are a woman, our experience at Integral Development shows that you’d rather...
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Most of us are aware of the 17.3% gender pay gap but did you know that male to female disparity is also prevalent in areas we never would have thought of? This week, I uncovered a gap that was new to me, and that’s the “sales gender gap”. To start at the beginning;...
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