Over the summer, I fell to the hands of the twitter frenzy. At first, I thought it was just another alternative to Facebook. That just like Facebook, it had its benefit of easy communication but also the negative addicting time wasting that comes hand in hand. Then, I came to Sauder and on my first day was introduced to a third year student who showed me the “business benefits” to twitter. A few serious accounts that help me stay up to date with my stocks and live market quotes but also a couple accounts that just give me random facts about big businesses. We live in a world where women make up at least half of our workforce and in high school I was always told that sexism in the workplace was no longer a big issue but tonight @InjusticeFacts posted a few things that really surprised me. “In 1993 Air Canada had 13,000 staff members, 1300 men and only 4 women were paid more than $70,000.” “Despite making up 60% of the work force, women only make up 10% of those in executive decisions” http://twitter.com/#!/InjusticeFacts
It is clear that women have the same ability as men in the workplace. Of course there are situations where men are given better opportunities but to see such a lopsided stat like this was astounding.
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