Dr. Jan I. Fox

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Technology forthe WorkingWomen
Other Life Challenges
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• Dr. Jan I. Fox
• Vice President for Information Technology/CIOMars
  hall University

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The very first real computer programmer was a
woman? Ada Byron King, the Countess of Lovelace
and daughter of poet Lord Byron, was a prominent
mathematician in the mid-1800s. She worked along
side her better-known male colleague, Charles
Babbage, on the first mechanical computing
machines.
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Expectations
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How Men, Women and Institutional Patterns Create
Glass Ceilings
Men...

• Feel loyalty to the brethren
• Men over fifty are not used towomen working
  side-by-side
• Not part of their educational experience

Women...

• Dont take sustained career pathsand often opt
  for the mommy track
• Assume they are not contenders and take back
  stage roles and jobs (supporting characters)
• Directed efforts at sexual differences, risks,
  rather than positive attributes that would impact
  corporate success
• Early examples were often hard to take

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How Men, Women and Institutional Patterns Create
Glass Ceilings (continued)
Institutional Patterns...

• Tried to break them throughlegislative
  initiativesmoderately successful
• Put women in soft roles todemonstrate
  commitment
• Have job descriptions andattributes that have
  historically been associated with male
  attributes and continue to assume these
  attributes ensure corporate success

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Womens Bill of Rights
Women have the right to life,liberty and the
pursuit ofhappiness long assumed to be the right
of men. Women, however,can only exercise this
right if we understand that it requiresvigilance,
personal honesty,and old fashion hard work.
The right to succeed is given, the actualization
of success is earned.
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How the World Evolved
Corporate

• CEOs
• Board of Directors
• Mobile technology
• Faster
• More paths
• Wheelies
• No more quotas
• Competency based
• More models

Economic

• Day care
• Media hype
• New consumers
• Quota based
• Prosperity
• Cosmo
• Stereotypes
• Light weight luggage
• Venture capital

Political

• Liberation movement
• Womens orgs.
• Education opens
• Middle class
• Early heroines

1970s
1980s
1990s
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Convergence
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Vision
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Health

• Forum for Women's Health - a collection facts,
  information, advice, and suggestions to help you
  deal with your health concerns. All content on
  these pages is designed, written, and developed
  by a woman physician and along with other
  women's health professionals.
• Merck Manual Women- http//www.merck.com/pubs/mm
  anual_home/contents.htm
• Cancer www.oncolink.org
• National Womens Health Center http//www.4women.g
  ov/
• Women's Health Interactive - to create a place
  for women to proactively learn about their health
  and health-related issues. http//www.womens-healt
  h.com/

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Wealth

• Web Banking
• MsMoney.com - focused on providing women with the
  tools and resources necessary for learning about
  and managing their financial health.
  http//www.msmoney.com/index.asp
• Online Trading

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Children

• Monitors
• Video Cams Everywhere
• Cell Phones
• Web Nannys
• Untethered

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Web for Women

• Women.Com is where women are going for
  information and inspiration http//www.women.com/
  
• Oxygen For women who think and talk about
  families, careers and work, health, politics,
  relationships, entertainment, sports and
  lifestyle www.oxygen.com
• iVillage offers busy women a community in which
  to share advice. Join other women like you to
  talk about, books, parenting, careers, computers,
  diet/fitness, food, money, pets, relationships
  http//www.ivillage.com/
• Women Issues is about women's issues, including
  feminism, discrimination, pay equity, affirmative
  action, abortion, domestic violence, sexual
  harassment, gender bias laws and legislation
  affecting women http//womensissues.about.com/news
  issues/womensissues/

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Love

• There's Nothing Sexier than a Woman with a 6
  Digit Salary.

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Learning to Compete

• You dont always win
• It hurts to fail, but not badenough to quit
• Baseball players dont cry
• Winning feels good

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Leadership and Innovation

• Dont avoid center stage its where the light is
• Get your ideas heard not complaints
• Find opportunities to be of thenew initiatives,
  businessesor experiments
• Find opportunities to supportother womens
  success

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EducationCan Accelerate Opportunities

• Competitive marketplace
• Education is a differentiator it demonstrates
  commitment and persistence
• Education still separates you from the pack and
  adds to the cache
• It opens up new connections, job placement,
  career centers, alumni associations, new networks

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Education

• Online Courses
• AnytimeAnywhereAny Topic.Any Degree
• Learn the Tools and Resources
• Takes Determination
• Raise Your Own Expectations
• Enlighten, Encourage,Empower and Enrage
• Technology is Your Friend

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Committing to a Career

• More than eight hour days
• Seizing opportunities and taking risks
• Mentors and the right managers switch to you get
  the right one
• Personal power
• Share success people want to be recognized
• Engage the external marketplaceconferences,
  associations, industry events
• Understand new business models learn the
  language of businessPLs, cost centers,
  operatingexpenses, margins

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Work

• Software..Software..SOFTWARE
• Tricks to Productivity
• Know What is Available
• DO IT BETTER
• Wireless
• Video
• Telecommute
• Teleconference
• New Types of Careers
• Training Learn

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Personal Drivers
Independence
CREATEmy own future
Prove something
Makesomething
Leadrather than follow
Create new rules
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