Women DO Ask: Negotiating in Gendered Organizational Environments, a seminar with Deborah Kolb

When
18 Oct 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
Simmons School of Management, Room M-101, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115

The Simmons School of Management presents a seminar with Deborah Kolb, PhD, distinguished research scholar at the Center for Gender in Organizations and professor emerita of Simmons SOM.

Despite years of "fourth frame" data discrediting the deficiency myth, the common story used to explain gender gaps in pay and promotion is to blame women because they 'don't ask.' If only, the story goes, they could improve their negotiating skills, gaps would disappear. In this seminar, we will first challenge this stereotype by trying to understand why it is so pervasive when the research is not nearly so convincing. The reality is that women negotiate in gendered organizational contexts that require them to negotiate over a wide range of issues--opportunities, flexibility, credit for their work --and where asking is complicated because it raises difficult issues. In this seminar, we will discuss, and work through, successful strategies for asking that women have used to connect what is good for them to what is good for their organizations.

Discounted event parking is available for $9 in the SOM garage

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