Manufacturers – including printers – continue to struggle to find qualified workers, yet women still remain a somewhat untapped labor resource. This paper explores how a variety of manufacturing companies are seeking to increase women in their workplaces, and provides best practices to improve gender equity, diversity & inclusion – including attempts to close the...
The difference between the earnings of men and women – often termed the “gender pay gap” – has barely changed over the past two decades. This multi-industry study presents the dollars and cents data, while exploring how the factors of age, motherhood, and education play into this persistent societal and business conundrum.
More employees than ever are doing double-duty on the professional and personal fronts, particularly as society now defines the “caregiving” role as one beyond traditional parenting. According to the McKinsey 2022 “Women in the Workplace” study, more women than ever before are leaving their jobs. However, the study emphasizes the point that these women are...
The “Hello, My Name Is…” sticker likely still reads “John” if you’re a CEO of an S&P 500 company, though “Jennifer” is now a possibility, too. That was one upshot of Bloomberg’s breaking news in March that the number of women CEOs leading S&P 500 companies is now at the highest marker in the 68-year...
Every year I look forward to reading the McKinsey/Lean In.org “Women in the Workplace” study; it’s become the gold standard, annual baseline report on trends driving the current state of our nation’s work/life culture. Therefore, I was honored to join Marianne Cooper, senior research scholar at VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab at Stanford University and...
More women – over 25 percent – are serving in Congress than ever before. How can you as a women leading a printing company initiate grassroots advocacy engagement with this group of women lawmakers on Capitol Hill (or at the state or local level, too) to benefit your company, your employees, your customers, and, at...
The opening of the 118th Congress (2023-24) on January 3rd, typically a day marked by bipartisan platitudes and endless “grip and grin” photo ops, almost instantly descended into bizarre controlled chaos as the US House of Representatives failed to organize itself by not electing a speaker on the first ballot for the first time in...
Not every new employee enters a printing company with a college degree or career certification in graphic arts. This is particularly true to those assuming roles in sales, finance, HR or other administrative roles outside the scope of print production – or for career switchers coming to print from other industries. For these employees, this...
