Executive Female articles from March 1991

Executive Female archives from March 1991

Rx for inequity in women's health care: when the subject is health care, discrimination against women is a life or death issue. (NAFE in Washington)
March 1, 1991... 8 A few months of meeting with a variety of leaders on women's issues, NAFE's newly appointed Washington, D.C., representative Joanne Symons and NAFE Director Wendy Reid Crisp have targeted two areas of advocacy for NAFE-member involvement....

Mentors. (Competitive Edge)
March 1, 1991... 0 SPEAKER-PHONE TABOO If you talk to business colleagues via a speaker phone, a new study shows about half of them are likely to be unhappy about this arrangement. A poll of 200 executives revealed 46 percent dislike the use of speaker...

Bull's-eye. (IRS audits) (Money)
March 1, 1991... 2 When a Penny Counts Drivers who are reimbursed for mileage by their companies or who deduct mileage from their taxes, have been gnashing their teeth as gasoline prices soared -until now. The iRs allowance, which represents the national...

Pirates, banditos and Micheline Masse: one-third of American adults hold old stocks and bonds they believe worthless - until this California businesswoman proves different.
March 1, 1991... 14 Suburban San Diego is a long way from the nearest stock exchange, but that's no problem for Micheline Masse, a 50-year-old Canadian mother of three who recently relocated her stock-sleuthing business here after 20 years in Montreal. ...

Stress and the single girl: an estimated 4.3 million single career women are in the workforce today, facing different pressures from their married counterparts.
March 1, 1991... Twenty years ago, at the age of 38, I suddenly became a single professional woman. I had two children, little money, a new pediatric practice -and no knowledge about living alone. (As a young woman I had moved from a college dorm to an...

The James Bond School of Business: once it was difficult to purchase spy-supply widgets - today business is booming.
March 1, 1991... It is snowing lightly on Manhattan's East Side. A businessman in his late 50s pauses before a storefront, closes his umbrella, shakes the snow from it and enters the store. Setting his briefcase down, he speaks to the salesman. I'd like to see...

Amelia Jenks Bloomer dresses for success: Bloomer called attention to the shocking fact that beneath voluminous hoopskirts, women had two legs. (Pioneers)
March 1, 1991... In the crowded streets of the thriving little mill town of Seneca Falls, New York, gasps arose from the startled passersby. Heads snapped around. Men's eyes popped. Women's mouths fell open in disbelief. Ministers went rigid with rage and...

Staged for success: four award-winning women come together to turn a classic book into a Broadway musical. (Lucy Simon, Marsha Norman, Heidi Landesman, Susan Schulman work on the Secret Garden)
March 1, 1991... Dumb luck is often creativity's best friend. And according to Heidi Landesman, producer and set designer of the new Broadway musical The Secret Garden, it was just that combination of good fortune and coincidence that pulled together the four...

No vacancy: millions of baby boomers have reached the peak of their careers simultaneously - they're bright; they're ambitious; they have nowhere to go.
March 1, 1991... 26 m 37; I'm a manager; I'm earning good money. I'm supposed to be happy," Joan johnston sighs, "but I'm not. And now it's over. The only way I'm moving up is if they carry my boss out on a stretcher." Talented and diligent, johnston moved...

The prying eye: how to sidestep job-interview questions that invade your privacy.
March 1, 1991... 0 With a tight job market out there, no one wants to alienate prospective employers with a badly phrased response to an interview question, but some employers ignore etiquette and even the law to broach subjects that are plainly out of...

Employment contracts: are you signing away your future? (includes sidebars on the language of restrictions and states' laws)
March 1, 1991... When Judith Moran took a job as head of the retirement department at Perry, Whittemore & Tanner (PWT), a State of Washington accounting firm, she signed an employment contract that seemed reasonable to her. It included a noncompete provision,...

Wasilewski at Mach III: this high-flying 32-year-old CFO raised $25 million to bring her company back from the brink. (Gail Wasilewski of Enzon Inc.)
March 1, 1991... The terms of the new job were daunting: Take over as controller of a medical-research firm with less than six months capital left and assume the duties of vice president/ CFO, until someone else is appointed to the job. Sure," said Gail...

A first class promotion tool: a letter to your local editor can be a dynamic marketing device. (includes sidebar on the odds)
March 1, 1991... 0 As a business professional you have something of merit to say regarding issues that affect your community. Why not say it on the editorial page of your local newspaper or one of your trade journals? A letter to the editor can be used...

A dream, a business plan, a bank roll: a well-documented strategy for developing the business you have dreamed about is the key to financial backing. (includes sidebar on the structure of a business plan)
March 1, 1991... You've just come up with a great idea for a business. What's the next step? Money, you figure. You've heard the statistics on startups - undercapitalization is the overriding cause of failure. What you may not know is that you can also thwart...

Playing hard or hardly playing? Are you one of the workaholics of the 1980s who wants to learn how to unwind in the 1990s?
March 1, 1991... Many people today are overprogramming themselves to the point where leisure time is no longer a relaxing break from routine. They find their weekends are booked full-shopping, family obligations, maybe some tennis and an evening function (or...

Making connections: how to avoid telephone networking blunders: perhaps because there is an anonymous quality to talking on the phone, callers have a tendency to be lax about networking protocol. (Networking)
March 1, 1991... Networking by phone may seem easier than a face-to-face meeting. For one thing, there is no visual impression to worry about-we needn't wonder to ourselves, "Is my body language delivering the right message?" or "Did my makeup smudge in the...

What does it take to be the first woman to fill a position or achieve a goal? Leading the way means having to set precedents, change people's minds and deal with isolation; three notable women share their experiences of being first. (Antonia C. Novello, Muriel Siebert, Susan Engeleiter)
March 1, 1991... ANTONIA C. NOVELLO M.D. MPH first woman U.S. Surgeon General. She is a pediatrician who has specialized in AIDS and kidney diseases in children. First, it is essential to identify your goals. I was fortunate to have decided when I was young...

Against the odds: being black and female didn't stop this go-getter from achieving her goals. (Lillian B. Handy of TRESP Associates) (Profile)
March 1, 1991... When Lillian B. Handy was growing up, her father religiously preached the three Gs": Go to church, get an education, get ahead. Handy has done all three, with the emphasis on getting ahead. For 10 years, Handy worked as a management...

Making news: the right publicity can turn your product into a household world. (includes sidebar on tips for writing a press release) (Tactics)
March 1, 1991... Things are looking good. You've launched your business, hired staff and introduced your product or service to the marketplace. it is more than likely, however, that your new software or muffin mix is not exactly a household word. So how do you...

Temp services thrive. (Franchise Finds)
March 1, 1991... The temporary personnel business is Ton a roll. According to the Department of Labor, it is the second fastest growing industry in the U.S. Long a supplier of secretaries, temp agencies now provide a range of talent to more than 95 percent of...

Finding the good in hard times: some entrepreneurs are laying the groundwork for tomorrow's prosperity. (The Money Game)
March 1, 1991... Failed banks, corporate layoffs and sagging economy have darkened the mood of many business owners Still, some entrepreneurs are finding silver lining amidst all the clouds. Th glut of office space means lower rents in some areas. Bankrupt...

Flame of affirmation: amidst our fears that the fragile bonds restraining chaos are breaking, here's a simple recipe for peace. (What it Takes) (column)
March 1, 1991... 1 hen I was the editor of a magazine for executive women, I worked with an associate who had an enlarged cartoon illustration hanging over her desk. It was of a properly elegant young woman whose face was a display of horror...