Women advised to be more assertive in business.

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Byline: Lore Croghan

Sep. 15--Women need to learn to speak Martian, if they want to get ahead in the workplace.

So says career coach Molly Dickinson Shepard, who argues that women, who are said to have come from Venus, need to learn the language of their Mars-based male counterparts.

Though women make up about half the American workforce and hold about half the managerial positions, they earn just 73 percent of what men in the same jobs get -- and hold only 5 percent of the country's top-paying posts.

Just eight of the Fortune 500 companies have women CEOs, Shepard said in an interview. That's not going to change until women start communicating more...

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