I've found my favorite site so far, hiremymom.com. Its basically an outsourcing site for companies to find individuals, aka stay at home moms to develop projects or do tasks for them externally.
FACT: Over 5.4 million mothers put their careers on hold to stay home with children*. That adds up to a lot of talented women with experience, education, skills and the motivation to find flexible work that can be done from their home office. (*Source: U.S. Census Bureau)
The problem with the website, however, its that you must pay a yearly membership fee of $99 to post your resume so companies can find you. There are some big names listed though. AOL, NBC, and more.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
M.O.M. Team
I did something stupid today. At first, I thought I actually found a legitimate website for work at home mothers. It actually said "legitimate." Haha. I should have seen the tell tale signs of women smiling, holding their children posted all over the page.
The warning words were there:
Work from home the way you want to:
No large investment
No selling, stocking or delivering products
No pressuring people
No complicated paperwork
No collecting money or placing orders for people
NO RISK!!
No large investment
No selling, stocking or delivering products
No pressuring people
No complicated paperwork
No collecting money or placing orders for people
NO RISK!!
But it was not until I was filling out the questionaire that I knew it was trouble. After your contact information, they ask how motivated are you to make money? How much would you invest to make a large income? Yeah. And I had already submitted my name and phone number. A representative IS going to call me, probably tomorrow and discuss the prospects of the Wellness Industry. Could they be more vague?
Another interesting blog to come after my phone call from M.O.M.s
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
WAHM Blog
I found a WAHM's page, and here's some of the highlights. Its really easy to relate to,
I love to joke with people about my boss:
My boss is a real bitch.
My boss makes me work overtime.
I asked my boss for some vacation time, and she said no.
Boy, when I was talking to my Human Resources person about my kid being sick, she was so sympathetic! It was like she had just been through it too!
You can imagine my shock when I found out my husband was sleeping with my boss!
However, even though I joke, I am acutely aware that as a self-employed person, I wear all of these hats alone. And in order to be fair to my clients, my boss, and my employee, I have to divide myself into all of these people ruthlessly. My boss pays me once a month. She doesn’t care whether she has extra money in the business coffers when I am running low. And I do not ask her for advances.
My employee expects to be paid, regardless of whether my clients have paid the company for services yet or not. And she does not understand, nor should she be expected to, that academic departments, who provide the bulk of payments for our services, work slowly. She still has to pay for health insurance, a car loan, a mortgage, and her three children, as she reminds me every time she balances her checkbook.
The boss who is a mother and the employee who is a mother are often at odds as well. Take yesterday for example. As the boss, I was fully aware of deadlines and responsibilities, and I wanted my employee to make a certain amount of progress before the working day was done. As the employee, I wanted flex time: I wanted to take a break in the afternoon to take my kids to the pool and to attend my son’s baseball game, in return for working very late hours last night. My boss should have known better: By 12:25 a.m., I was exhausted and vowed to be a better, more focused employee in the morning.
It’s a balancing act every single day. Will I be a better boss today or a better employee? Will family responsiblities win out, or deadlines? Today, I will get more done on my deadlines simply by virtue of the fact that my son doesn’t have a baseball game. I usually go to karaoke on Tuesday nights with my husband, but he is out of town, and I have work to do. Every day, weighing and measuring, taking accounts. One person could go crazy with trying to manage it all, wear so many hats alone.
So, how do I keep from going crazy? It all boils down to one thing: My kids. It sounds cheesey and hokey, but actually it is a lot more simple and practical. I think for most people it all comes down to the children: I work to provide for my children. Some days, it is more important to meet the deadline that will feed them. However, I am not just a drone who feeds the children and ignores them the rest of the time.
Some days it is more important to remember why I became my own boss in the first place. It is more important to set less urgent work aside so I can thrill in my children. If I remember each day what the most important thing is– my children– then I manage to get the balance right. That is the trick. Simple, right? Underneath the bills, the dishes, and the deadlines, the kids are buried there somewhere. You just have to dig through all the other stuff to find them.
I love to joke with people about my boss:
My boss is a real bitch.
My boss makes me work overtime.
I asked my boss for some vacation time, and she said no.
Boy, when I was talking to my Human Resources person about my kid being sick, she was so sympathetic! It was like she had just been through it too!
You can imagine my shock when I found out my husband was sleeping with my boss!
However, even though I joke, I am acutely aware that as a self-employed person, I wear all of these hats alone. And in order to be fair to my clients, my boss, and my employee, I have to divide myself into all of these people ruthlessly. My boss pays me once a month. She doesn’t care whether she has extra money in the business coffers when I am running low. And I do not ask her for advances.
My employee expects to be paid, regardless of whether my clients have paid the company for services yet or not. And she does not understand, nor should she be expected to, that academic departments, who provide the bulk of payments for our services, work slowly. She still has to pay for health insurance, a car loan, a mortgage, and her three children, as she reminds me every time she balances her checkbook.
The boss who is a mother and the employee who is a mother are often at odds as well. Take yesterday for example. As the boss, I was fully aware of deadlines and responsibilities, and I wanted my employee to make a certain amount of progress before the working day was done. As the employee, I wanted flex time: I wanted to take a break in the afternoon to take my kids to the pool and to attend my son’s baseball game, in return for working very late hours last night. My boss should have known better: By 12:25 a.m., I was exhausted and vowed to be a better, more focused employee in the morning.
It’s a balancing act every single day. Will I be a better boss today or a better employee? Will family responsiblities win out, or deadlines? Today, I will get more done on my deadlines simply by virtue of the fact that my son doesn’t have a baseball game. I usually go to karaoke on Tuesday nights with my husband, but he is out of town, and I have work to do. Every day, weighing and measuring, taking accounts. One person could go crazy with trying to manage it all, wear so many hats alone.
So, how do I keep from going crazy? It all boils down to one thing: My kids. It sounds cheesey and hokey, but actually it is a lot more simple and practical. I think for most people it all comes down to the children: I work to provide for my children. Some days, it is more important to meet the deadline that will feed them. However, I am not just a drone who feeds the children and ignores them the rest of the time.
Some days it is more important to remember why I became my own boss in the first place. It is more important to set less urgent work aside so I can thrill in my children. If I remember each day what the most important thing is– my children– then I manage to get the balance right. That is the trick. Simple, right? Underneath the bills, the dishes, and the deadlines, the kids are buried there somewhere. You just have to dig through all the other stuff to find them.
Monday, June 25, 2007
WAHMs
Many moms are redefining the stay-at-home experience by using today's technology -- and employers' growing reliance on free agents -- to earn an income without ever setting foot in an office.
These home-based working moms -- known as mompreneurs or WAHMs, which stands for work-at-home-moms -- also represent an increasingly attractive labor pool for employers, allowing companies to outsource domestically instead of hiring workers overseas.
They're moms such as Alyson Struwe, 41, of Beaver, Pa. The at-home mother of three fields calls from her office for LiveOps, a call-center company whose independent agents work from home.
"I can still feel I'm a productive member of society and bring in an income, but my children have never gotten off the bus and not had a parent there," Struwe says. "How many parents can say that?"
Agents for the Palo Alto, Calif.-based LiveOps handle incoming calls, such as inquiries from shoppers buying products. They have more than 3,000 agents in 48 states.
Many are work-at-home moms. In a poll of its agents, LiveOps found nearly 55% are mothers with children who are school age or younger and at home at least part time. Fifty-four percent say they're working to supplement household income.
"It's tough today to have a mom stay at home and not earn any income," says Bill Trenchard, CEO. "We make it flexible around their lifestyle. They schedule when and how they work. We have a lot of moms who decide to do this as a home-based business.
"The Internet has opened these new opportunities."
Setting their hours
Other companies are also capitalizing on stay-at-home moms. Working Solutions, based in Plano, Texas, provides Fortune 1000 companies with sales and customer service support using remote, home-based agents. They help consumers with travel, health care and consumer products.
The company has more than 28,000 agents. About 80% have some college education. Agents generally earn $10 to $14 an hour. Agents set their hours.
Says Scott Anderson of Working Solutions: "We have moms and single moms who want to be at home for their kids. We expect no pets, no kids, when you're on the phone. With broadband at home, companies can save money. That drives the movement to working at home."
There are no statistics on the number of work-at-home moms, but there are more than 10 million female-owned businesses in the USA, according to the National Association of Women Business Owners. Work at Home Moms (www.wahm.com), an online magazine for mothers who work at home, notes that the phenomenon is growing as more businesses tap this growing labor pool.
The labor-force participation rate of women ages 25 to 54 with at least four years of college declined from 84.7% in 1994-95 to 81.8% in 2003-04, and the decline was most pronounced for married women with children under age 3, according to Regional Review, a publication of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
"There are more mothers working for companies, doing call-center work," says Cheryl Demas, in Folsom, Calif., at Work at Home Moms (WAHM). She now gets 15,000 to 20,000 hits on her website a day, double the number from a year ago.
"Economically, it makes a lot of sense," she says. "(Businesses) don't have to set up large call centers."
She also warns that some moms can be preyed on by scam operations that try to get victims to send in money in order to do work from home. The job never materializes.
Technology helps
The ability of at-home moms to earn an income is also being driven by technology such as high-speed Internet access, the increase in home computers and a greater willingness by cost-conscious companies to rely on free agents rather than hiring full-time staff.
Brenda Gruss, 51, of Chevy Chase, Md., works as a lawyer -- handling criminal law, immigration and related work from her home office so she can spend more time with her three children, ages 19, 14 and 10. She says there can be some challenges.
"With the new technology, it's harder to separate work life from home life," Gruss says. "The kids are doing homework, and I'll work on my computer."
The work-at-home moms might work irregular hours, after their husbands come home from work or when their children are in school. They often work as independent contractors; most don't get health benefits.
Networking services for this labor pool are also growing. Home-based working moms are organizing their own business conferences, and many glean business tips from others through websites devoted to making money while staying at home with children.
These home-based working moms -- known as mompreneurs or WAHMs, which stands for work-at-home-moms -- also represent an increasingly attractive labor pool for employers, allowing companies to outsource domestically instead of hiring workers overseas.
They're moms such as Alyson Struwe, 41, of Beaver, Pa. The at-home mother of three fields calls from her office for LiveOps, a call-center company whose independent agents work from home.
"I can still feel I'm a productive member of society and bring in an income, but my children have never gotten off the bus and not had a parent there," Struwe says. "How many parents can say that?"
Agents for the Palo Alto, Calif.-based LiveOps handle incoming calls, such as inquiries from shoppers buying products. They have more than 3,000 agents in 48 states.
Many are work-at-home moms. In a poll of its agents, LiveOps found nearly 55% are mothers with children who are school age or younger and at home at least part time. Fifty-four percent say they're working to supplement household income.
"It's tough today to have a mom stay at home and not earn any income," says Bill Trenchard, CEO. "We make it flexible around their lifestyle. They schedule when and how they work. We have a lot of moms who decide to do this as a home-based business.
"The Internet has opened these new opportunities."
Setting their hours
Other companies are also capitalizing on stay-at-home moms. Working Solutions, based in Plano, Texas, provides Fortune 1000 companies with sales and customer service support using remote, home-based agents. They help consumers with travel, health care and consumer products.
The company has more than 28,000 agents. About 80% have some college education. Agents generally earn $10 to $14 an hour. Agents set their hours.
Says Scott Anderson of Working Solutions: "We have moms and single moms who want to be at home for their kids. We expect no pets, no kids, when you're on the phone. With broadband at home, companies can save money. That drives the movement to working at home."
There are no statistics on the number of work-at-home moms, but there are more than 10 million female-owned businesses in the USA, according to the National Association of Women Business Owners. Work at Home Moms (www.wahm.com), an online magazine for mothers who work at home, notes that the phenomenon is growing as more businesses tap this growing labor pool.
The labor-force participation rate of women ages 25 to 54 with at least four years of college declined from 84.7% in 1994-95 to 81.8% in 2003-04, and the decline was most pronounced for married women with children under age 3, according to Regional Review, a publication of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
"There are more mothers working for companies, doing call-center work," says Cheryl Demas, in Folsom, Calif., at Work at Home Moms (WAHM). She now gets 15,000 to 20,000 hits on her website a day, double the number from a year ago.
"Economically, it makes a lot of sense," she says. "(Businesses) don't have to set up large call centers."
She also warns that some moms can be preyed on by scam operations that try to get victims to send in money in order to do work from home. The job never materializes.
Technology helps
The ability of at-home moms to earn an income is also being driven by technology such as high-speed Internet access, the increase in home computers and a greater willingness by cost-conscious companies to rely on free agents rather than hiring full-time staff.
Brenda Gruss, 51, of Chevy Chase, Md., works as a lawyer -- handling criminal law, immigration and related work from her home office so she can spend more time with her three children, ages 19, 14 and 10. She says there can be some challenges.
"With the new technology, it's harder to separate work life from home life," Gruss says. "The kids are doing homework, and I'll work on my computer."
The work-at-home moms might work irregular hours, after their husbands come home from work or when their children are in school. They often work as independent contractors; most don't get health benefits.
Networking services for this labor pool are also growing. Home-based working moms are organizing their own business conferences, and many glean business tips from others through websites devoted to making money while staying at home with children.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Baby Magazines
Why is it that in the classified section of baby and parenting magazines are the job listings all called home based income???
Here you'll find the typical "party type" sellers like discovery toys and pampered chef. Also, there are some ambiguous ads that say "Paychecks available" "Play for a living." Most mothers, especially those with very new babies are exhausted, sleep deprived and may be more easily fooled into these ads. I investigated some of the ads that said things like "moms wanted, no selling" to see
what they are really about. Websites like www.workathomeincome.com and www.workathomeunited.com sounded promising. But of course, all I found were great testimonials from "real mothers" and no listing of what the job is. Just a page to enter information about yourself, and the link to purchase and "information package" about the "career opportunity."
I wonder if its possibly, although probably not accurately, to find out how many people are suckered into these scams? And if any of them actually, legitimately earn money doing it?
Here you'll find the typical "party type" sellers like discovery toys and pampered chef. Also, there are some ambiguous ads that say "Paychecks available" "Play for a living." Most mothers, especially those with very new babies are exhausted, sleep deprived and may be more easily fooled into these ads. I investigated some of the ads that said things like "moms wanted, no selling" to see
what they are really about. Websites like www.workathomeincome.com and www.workathomeunited.com sounded promising. But of course, all I found were great testimonials from "real mothers" and no listing of what the job is. Just a page to enter information about yourself, and the link to purchase and "information package" about the "career opportunity."I wonder if its possibly, although probably not accurately, to find out how many people are suckered into these scams? And if any of them actually, legitimately earn money doing it?
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Telecommuting, really?
Ok, so I have created "profiles" at lots of corporate website in order to land a career, preferably a telecommuting one. But seeing as how we are in Indiana, in a city with only a few big companies, well besides like GM assembly plant and things like that, I'm not having any luck. I don't think it is possible to get on a career finder website like monster or hot jobs and land a great at home job. There's always the option of selling insurance over the phone! I've had 3 phone call offering me jobs of selling insurance and the like. But what a competitive industry. And in another decade, are we really going to have insurance agents, or will we just get online to do everything?
Not a very stable career in my opinion. So I will continue my search for some type of reputable job that I can perform from home for a reputable company for respectable pay.
Not a very stable career in my opinion. So I will continue my search for some type of reputable job that I can perform from home for a reputable company for respectable pay.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
5 ways to find a legitimate telecommuting position
With gas prices at an all-time high, many Americans are looking for ways to do less driving and more companies than ever before are offering telecommuting options to their current employees and searching for at-home employees to fill open positions. The question for the job seeker is now how to find these opportunities.
Below are five methods you can use to find a telecommuting position.
First, check your local newspaper. When I began my search for an at-home career, I found my first employer through the Classified Ads section of our hometown paper. I was wary at first, but after thoroughly researching the companies through means such as the Better Business Bureau (BBB), visiting the corporate office and meeting some of their current employees you might be able to confirm that they are legitimate.
Second, search online using website such as Monster.com and Dice.com.
However, listings found online must be researched carefully to avoid the scams that abound on the Internet. There are also websites that will you allow to do job research in your own community. Craigslist.com is good because you can choose a city and then refine your search with keywords such as “telecommute.”
Posting your resume on websites such as Hotjobs.com is a third way to locate at work-at-home job. Putting your resume online can bring employers to you, depending on your skills and qualifications. Another bonus of an online resume is that you can easily direct prospective employers to view it. It also makes life a bit simpler when applying for jobs, because you can attach your online resume instead of typing out your job history, qualifications, and so on, each time you apply for a job.
A fourth option when looking for at-home employment is to open a phone book and call businesses in your area. For example, if you’re interested in doing administrative work, you might contact churches and small businesses in your area to see if they are looking for office help. Even if they are not currently seeking help, they may know of another business owner who is.
Along those same lines, the fifth way to become a telecommuter is to create your own opportunity. For example, instead of finding a company that will hire you as an administrative assistant from home, consider starting your own business as a Virtual Assistant. You can offer your services to many companies, which can both increase your income potential and allow you the flexibility of deciding which jobs you’d like to accept.
You can also create your own telecommuting position by talking with your current employer about work-at-home possibilities. More and more companies are finding that at-home employees are just as productive as those in the office, if not more. Companies also benefit financially by lessening office space and avoiding the costs of many office supplies. Many companies who are not ready to hire at-home workers will allow their current employees to work one or two days from a home office, so be sure to discuss this option.
The telecommuting field has become highly competitive as more and more people find that working from home is a possibility. Searching for a telecommuting position can be daunting, but by looking in strategic places such as online and in your local newspaper, theres a better chance.
Below are five methods you can use to find a telecommuting position.
First, check your local newspaper. When I began my search for an at-home career, I found my first employer through the Classified Ads section of our hometown paper. I was wary at first, but after thoroughly researching the companies through means such as the Better Business Bureau (BBB), visiting the corporate office and meeting some of their current employees you might be able to confirm that they are legitimate.
Second, search online using website such as Monster.com and Dice.com.
However, listings found online must be researched carefully to avoid the scams that abound on the Internet. There are also websites that will you allow to do job research in your own community. Craigslist.com is good because you can choose a city and then refine your search with keywords such as “telecommute.”
Posting your resume on websites such as Hotjobs.com is a third way to locate at work-at-home job. Putting your resume online can bring employers to you, depending on your skills and qualifications. Another bonus of an online resume is that you can easily direct prospective employers to view it. It also makes life a bit simpler when applying for jobs, because you can attach your online resume instead of typing out your job history, qualifications, and so on, each time you apply for a job.
A fourth option when looking for at-home employment is to open a phone book and call businesses in your area. For example, if you’re interested in doing administrative work, you might contact churches and small businesses in your area to see if they are looking for office help. Even if they are not currently seeking help, they may know of another business owner who is.
Along those same lines, the fifth way to become a telecommuter is to create your own opportunity. For example, instead of finding a company that will hire you as an administrative assistant from home, consider starting your own business as a Virtual Assistant. You can offer your services to many companies, which can both increase your income potential and allow you the flexibility of deciding which jobs you’d like to accept.
You can also create your own telecommuting position by talking with your current employer about work-at-home possibilities. More and more companies are finding that at-home employees are just as productive as those in the office, if not more. Companies also benefit financially by lessening office space and avoiding the costs of many office supplies. Many companies who are not ready to hire at-home workers will allow their current employees to work one or two days from a home office, so be sure to discuss this option.
The telecommuting field has become highly competitive as more and more people find that working from home is a possibility. Searching for a telecommuting position can be daunting, but by looking in strategic places such as online and in your local newspaper, theres a better chance.
Monday, June 18, 2007
FUMMO
FUMMO is found on many work at home blog pages, so I decided to TRY to find out exactly what it is!
Here's some information, well the ONLY information on their webpage!
What is FUMMO? Fummo is advertising company where members can earn free money doing simple and free offers, Searching using our search engine, viewing advertisments, and Inviting friends to join under your referal link!
1:How do I open my Fummo.com account?
It's quite easy and convenient. Simply click on the Signup button on this web site and follow the easy instructions.
2:Can I have more than 1 account?
No You can't have more than 1 account from one IP, our system won't let you login if you will try to login in 2 accounts from 1 IP address.
3:How much I'll earn?
It depends on you how much you want to earn with us, you will earn $5 from each registered user under you and also 10% of his earnings and also you will earn money by doing paid offers, searching web with our surfbar, watching advertisements.
4:How old I need to be to join fummo?
You must be at least 14years old.
5:How can I request my earned money?
You will be able to request cashout at any time when you want once you have more than $1 in your account, it will be sent to your e-gold or paypal or moneybookers account or with bankwire transfer. Your Payment will be sent in 2-14business days.
6:How much friend I can refer?
There is no limit how much referrals you can have! Example if you will invite 300friends to join under you , you will receive $1,500+10% from their earnings!
7:Do I need to pay for signing up?
No! registration is free!
8:How do I check my account balance?
You can access account information 24 hours, seven days a week over the Internet.
9:Can I refer someone that is already a member?
No. If someone is already a member, he/she cannot become your referral.
10:How can we afford to pay you?
It's simple, we earn from advertisers who are paying us to promote their business at our program.
11:How do I invite others?
Go to your referral link area what's located at your account, it will give you detailed information how you can refer your friends.
12:How do I change my personal information?
Go to your profile section to change your information.
13:Is Fummo.com already launched?
No fummo.com will be launched for real at 20.may at this time you can only invite your friends to join under you and earn $5 from each your friend!
14:When I will be able to start earn?
You can earn by inviting your friends now- $5 from each friend but you will be able to earn more by doing offers and searching at our search engine starting from 20.may!
15:Is there any limit how much I can earn?
No there is no limit how much you can earn, we will be able to pay you each time!
WOW, it pretty much tells you nothing! Why are internet opportunities always scams? There are several testimonial blogs all over the internet about how great Fummo is. But really, how great can it be if you must be at least 14 years old? That even sounds screwy. And we don't even know what you have to do to earn money. I guess you find that out once you sign up to earn that UNLIMITED MONEY. haha.
My quest for legitimate internet work continues...
Here's some information, well the ONLY information on their webpage!
What is FUMMO? Fummo is advertising company where members can earn free money doing simple and free offers, Searching using our search engine, viewing advertisments, and Inviting friends to join under your referal link!
1:How do I open my Fummo.com account?
It's quite easy and convenient. Simply click on the Signup button on this web site and follow the easy instructions.
2:Can I have more than 1 account?
No You can't have more than 1 account from one IP, our system won't let you login if you will try to login in 2 accounts from 1 IP address.
3:How much I'll earn?
It depends on you how much you want to earn with us, you will earn $5 from each registered user under you and also 10% of his earnings and also you will earn money by doing paid offers, searching web with our surfbar, watching advertisements.
4:How old I need to be to join fummo?
You must be at least 14years old.
5:How can I request my earned money?
You will be able to request cashout at any time when you want once you have more than $1 in your account, it will be sent to your e-gold or paypal or moneybookers account or with bankwire transfer. Your Payment will be sent in 2-14business days.
6:How much friend I can refer?
There is no limit how much referrals you can have! Example if you will invite 300friends to join under you , you will receive $1,500+10% from their earnings!
7:Do I need to pay for signing up?
No! registration is free!
8:How do I check my account balance?
You can access account information 24 hours, seven days a week over the Internet.
9:Can I refer someone that is already a member?
No. If someone is already a member, he/she cannot become your referral.
10:How can we afford to pay you?
It's simple, we earn from advertisers who are paying us to promote their business at our program.
11:How do I invite others?
Go to your referral link area what's located at your account, it will give you detailed information how you can refer your friends.
12:How do I change my personal information?
Go to your profile section to change your information.
13:Is Fummo.com already launched?
No fummo.com will be launched for real at 20.may at this time you can only invite your friends to join under you and earn $5 from each your friend!
14:When I will be able to start earn?
You can earn by inviting your friends now- $5 from each friend but you will be able to earn more by doing offers and searching at our search engine starting from 20.may!
15:Is there any limit how much I can earn?
No there is no limit how much you can earn, we will be able to pay you each time!
WOW, it pretty much tells you nothing! Why are internet opportunities always scams? There are several testimonial blogs all over the internet about how great Fummo is. But really, how great can it be if you must be at least 14 years old? That even sounds screwy. And we don't even know what you have to do to earn money. I guess you find that out once you sign up to earn that UNLIMITED MONEY. haha.
My quest for legitimate internet work continues...
Thursday, June 14, 2007
New Stats
Recently I was doing some research for my blog and I found several articles that offered some eye opening statistics as far as women vs. men in the professional environment. Once again, discouraging for women.
In 2004, women in the United States were paid 76 cents for every dollar men received for comparable work.
• African American women earn only 71 cents and Latinas 59 cents for every dollar men are paid. Asian Pacific American women earn 86 cents for every dollar men make.
• Nationwide, working families lose $200 billion in income annually due to the wage gap between men and women.
• If married women were paid the same as men in comparable jobs, their family incomes would rise by nearly 6 percent, and their families' poverty rates would fall from 2.1 percent to 0.8 percent.
• If single working mothers earned as much as men in comparable jobs, their family incomes would increase by nearly 17 percent and their poverty rates would be cut in half, from 25.3 percent to 12.6 percent.
• If single women earned as much as men in comparable jobs, their incomes would rise by 13.4 percent and their poverty rates would be reduced from 6.3 percent to 1 percent.
• Half of all women with income from a pension in 2002 received less than $5,600 per year, compared with $10,340 per year for men.
• The 25.6 million women who work in predominantly male jobs lose an average of $3,446 each per year; the 4 million men who work in predominately female occupations lose an average of $6,259 each per year—a total $114 billion loss for men and women in predominately female jobs.
• In the global economy, women account for 60 percent of the world’s 550 million working poor—even though they make up 40 percent of the world’s workforce.
In 2004, women in the United States were paid 76 cents for every dollar men received for comparable work.
• African American women earn only 71 cents and Latinas 59 cents for every dollar men are paid. Asian Pacific American women earn 86 cents for every dollar men make.
• Nationwide, working families lose $200 billion in income annually due to the wage gap between men and women.
• If married women were paid the same as men in comparable jobs, their family incomes would rise by nearly 6 percent, and their families' poverty rates would fall from 2.1 percent to 0.8 percent.
• If single working mothers earned as much as men in comparable jobs, their family incomes would increase by nearly 17 percent and their poverty rates would be cut in half, from 25.3 percent to 12.6 percent.
• If single women earned as much as men in comparable jobs, their incomes would rise by 13.4 percent and their poverty rates would be reduced from 6.3 percent to 1 percent.
• Half of all women with income from a pension in 2002 received less than $5,600 per year, compared with $10,340 per year for men.
• The 25.6 million women who work in predominantly male jobs lose an average of $3,446 each per year; the 4 million men who work in predominately female occupations lose an average of $6,259 each per year—a total $114 billion loss for men and women in predominately female jobs.
• In the global economy, women account for 60 percent of the world’s 550 million working poor—even though they make up 40 percent of the world’s workforce.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
BlueSuitMom Website
I found an exciting new website that offers advice on how working mothers can balance everything going on in there life. There are interesting articles on what characteristics employers search for, how to make your coworkers happy, and how to unwind.
Here's a list of 20 annoying workplace habits that need broken:
Winning too much: The need to win at all costs and in all situations -- when it matters, when it doesn't, and when it's totally beside the point.
Adding too much value: The overwhelming desire to add our two cents to every discussion.
Passing judgment: The need to rate others and impose our standards on them.
Making destructive comments: The needless sarcasms and cutting remarks that we think make us sound sharp and witty.
Starting with "No," "But," or "However": The overuse of these negative qualifiers which secretly say to everyone, "I'm right. You're wrong."
Telling the world how smart we are: The need to show people we're smarter than they think we are.
Speaking when angry: Using emotional volatility as a management tool.
Negativity, or "Let me explain why that won't work": The need to share our negative thoughts even when we weren't asked.
Withholding information: The refusal to share information in order to maintain an advantage over others.
Failing to give proper recognition: The inability to praise and reward.
Claiming credit that we don't deserve: The most annoying way to overestimate our contribution to any success.
Making excuses: The need to reposition our annoying behavior as a permanent fixture so people excuse us for it.
Clinging to the past: The need to deflect blame away from ourselves and onto events and people from our past; a subset of blaming everyone else.
Playing favorites: Failing to see that we are treating someone unfairly.
Refusing to express regret: The inability to take responsibility for our actions, admit we're wrong, or recognize how our actions affect others.
Not listening: The most passive-aggressive form of disrespect for colleagues.
Failing to express gratitude: The most basic form of bad manners.
Punishing the messenger: The misguided need to attack the innocent who are usually only trying to help us.
Passing the buck: The need to blame everyone but ourselves.
An excessive need to be "me": Exalting our faults as virtues simply because they're who we are.
Monday, June 11, 2007
Less Pay for Mothers?
A landmark study by Cornell University has quantified what many working mothers have suspected for years:
Women with children are less likely to get hired and are paid less in starting salaries than similarly qualified fathers or women without children. Bad news for career mothers :(
There is no federal law prohibiting a potential employer from asking a woman - or man -
about their family. Some states have such laws, but their effectiveness varies widely.
Shelley Correll, author of the study and an associate professor of sociology at Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y., says she not only found proof of discrimination in her 18-month study, she also found salaries for working mothers tended to decrease exponentially with each
additional child.
She launched the study - "The Motherhood Penalty" - after hearing complaints from mothers for years.
To test her suspicion, she created two fictitious applicants seeking a job as a marketing director for a communications company.
Both had virtually identical qualifications and resumes with no indication of gender or family status. The applications were presented to
60 undergraduates - both men and women - for evaluation. The reviewers found the applicants to be equal and said they had no hiring preference.
Correll used undergraduates because she believed them to be most closely attuned to the
current hiring climate. She also assumed they had been raised in an age when sensibilities about working mothers had changed.
Next, the same resumes were shown to another set of undergraduate evaluators. This time, though, the applicants were both women.
A memo was slipped into one of the application packets mentioning she was a mother of two. Her resume was changed slightly to include a reference to being an officer of a parent-teacher association.
The outcome changed dramatically.
The evaluators said they would hire the childless
women 84 percent of the time.
The mothers were given a job only 47 percent of the time.
The mothers also were offered a starting salary of $11,000 less than their counterparts without children.
How horrifying to be entering the professional career field as a mother!
Facts taken for Womenwork.org/pdfresources/mothers
Article from the Denver Post
Women with children are less likely to get hired and are paid less in starting salaries than similarly qualified fathers or women without children. Bad news for career mothers :(
There is no federal law prohibiting a potential employer from asking a woman - or man -
about their family. Some states have such laws, but their effectiveness varies widely.
Shelley Correll, author of the study and an associate professor of sociology at Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y., says she not only found proof of discrimination in her 18-month study, she also found salaries for working mothers tended to decrease exponentially with each
additional child.
She launched the study - "The Motherhood Penalty" - after hearing complaints from mothers for years.
To test her suspicion, she created two fictitious applicants seeking a job as a marketing director for a communications company.
Both had virtually identical qualifications and resumes with no indication of gender or family status. The applications were presented to
60 undergraduates - both men and women - for evaluation. The reviewers found the applicants to be equal and said they had no hiring preference.
Correll used undergraduates because she believed them to be most closely attuned to the
current hiring climate. She also assumed they had been raised in an age when sensibilities about working mothers had changed.
Next, the same resumes were shown to another set of undergraduate evaluators. This time, though, the applicants were both women.
A memo was slipped into one of the application packets mentioning she was a mother of two. Her resume was changed slightly to include a reference to being an officer of a parent-teacher association.
The outcome changed dramatically.
The evaluators said they would hire the childless
women 84 percent of the time.
The mothers were given a job only 47 percent of the time.
The mothers also were offered a starting salary of $11,000 less than their counterparts without children.
How horrifying to be entering the professional career field as a mother!
Facts taken for Womenwork.org/pdfresources/mothers
Article from the Denver Post
Thursday, June 7, 2007
AT&T at Home
Large numbers of AT&T employees are moving out of traditional offices and into virtual offices as a way of increasing productivity, work/life balance and their quality of life. They rely on a structure that is more and more “net-centric” - organized around networks instead of buildings.
All of these advantages relate directly to job and career satisfaction, increasing teleworkers' organizational loyalty. About 2 out of 3 teleworkers (67%) report increased job satisfaction after beginning to work from home. Approximately the same proportion (64%) report increased satisfaction with their career. Roughly half (47%) of teleworkers who had received competing job offers factored the ability to work at home into the decision to stay with the company. If teleworkers were told they could no longer work from home, two out of five (43%) say they would seek another position that supported telework, in or out of the company.
According to a 2002/2003 employee telework research, 17% of AT&T managers now say they work in a full-time virtual office (or “VO”, defined as working all of a standard work week at home or from a customer location). This is almost double the 9% VO reported in 2001. Another 40% report less-than-full-time telework patterns including working from home, office sharing or hoteling arrangements.
Shifting to a frequency-based view, about 33% of AT&T managers now telework at least once a week, over four times the 8% who did so when our research first began in 1992.
AT&T has been conducting employee telework research since 1992. The objectives are to:
Quantify the benefits of this new operating model to society, the enterprise and employees,
Identify barriers to broader, more effective participation,
Enhance our products and services, and
Provide strategic guidance to our customers and clients.
Quantify the benefits of this new operating model to society, the enterprise and employees,
Identify barriers to broader, more effective participation,
Enhance our products and services, and
Provide strategic guidance to our customers and clients.
2002-2003 results are based on a representative survey of 1200 AT&T managers. Confidential at-home telephone interviews were conducted by a leading independent market research company, using stratified random sampling techniques.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Jet Blue
I went directly to JetBlue's webpage to see if I could apply for an at home telecommuting job since that company was mentioned in "The World is Flat". First you are asked to create a profile for yourself before you can even apply for a position. But YES there are at home jobs available as long as you live in the Salt Lake City region. You must have a local phone number so that you can network with the company as well as customers. But I did find a legitimate posting with a real company!
Monday, June 4, 2007
SCAMS
Upon researching some companies, I was quite shocked to find a huge amount of scams out there. Everyone knows that the internet is full of "get rich quick scams" and "work from home 10 hours a week earning $20,000 a month" scams. However, I couldn't find any, well besides Avon and the like, honest telecommuting career oppotunities through Google.
So I searched through Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com to find IT or Telecommuting positions. Every advertisement shows the same types of pictures--a woman playing in the yard with her kids; a luxury car in the driveway of a mansion; a laptop computer off to the side of a happy couple; a man hugging his child in front of a computer. How idealistic.
So I searched through Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com to find IT or Telecommuting positions. Every advertisement shows the same types of pictures--a woman playing in the yard with her kids; a luxury car in the driveway of a mansion; a laptop computer off to the side of a happy couple; a man hugging his child in front of a computer. How idealistic.
The job posting are always vague, don't tell the product or service produced by the company, or even the company name for that matter. I entered my information on two of the postings to see if I could get some concrete facts into what the company actually was. But no. All I received was a check "yes or no box" in acceptance of a fee for them to send you information.
I draw the line there. Scammers.
According to the textbook (www.prenhall.com/robbins) used in one of my classes, 10% of the workforce works out of their home. That does't even include those in business for themselves.
Where are these jobs and how to you get them if you can't even locate them?
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