I’m sure you’ve noticed that we’re celebrating negotiating women here this month in honor of International Women’s Day and National Women’s History Month. Other than tomorrow night’s free negotiating women teleseminar with super coach Lisa Gates, I’m celebrating by posting in one place all of my articles on negotiating women.
Nature gives you the face you have at 20; it is up to you to merit the face you have at 50. — Coco Chanel A local judge who has four beautiful young law students working for him this summer…
Tips from Forbes & a Word with Women: Negotiate Your First Salary
If you’re entering the job market, you’ll want to check out Forbes’ Magazine’s Tips for Negotiating Your First Salary. If you do not negotiate your first salary, you stand to lose half a million dollars over...
Ask for It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want
I didn’t realize until I got onto the plane out of Seattle that Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever — our morning plenary session speakers (Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide) — have written a new book — Ask…
Negotiating Your Mid-Life Career Crisis with Career Coach Lisa Gates
Practicing law, particularly litigation, is often frustrating, sometimes humiliating, and frequently simply dispiriting. On the other hand, the practice of law can be thrilling, intellectually stimulating, challenging, absorbing, and a darn good way to make a good living. When you…
Is Hillary Negotiating Her Withdrawal? So Says Cokie
From Women on the Web’s Conversation Today Cokie Roberts: ‘Hillary Is Negotiating Her Withdrawal’ with Lesley Stahl Q&A with ABC News correspondent Cokie Roberts. Excerpt below: LESLEY: Let’s talk about Hillary. I’m wondering, how do you explain..
Must Read for All Women Negotiating Law Firm Life
Below is my review in The Complete Lawyer of Lauren Stiller Rikleen’s must-read book Ending the Gauntlet: Removing Barriers to Women’s Success in the Law. Concluding paragraph: At bottom, this book calls for management practices that will benefit all attorneys…
Clinton Speaks on 88th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage
(Right, women protesting, 1912. My own grandmother was 12 years old at the time this photo was taken. By the time she was old enough to vote in 1921, she could vote) Why women’s voting rights and Hillary Clinton’s DNC...
Negotiating Women at ForbesWoman
If you’re a certain age, you’ll remember women’s magazines as mostly “Can This Marriage Be Saved” (The Ladies Home Journal to which PWNSC members Cathy Scott’s and Cordelia Mendoza’s mother was always submitting articles) or 101 Things to do with…
Negotiating Against the Grain of Gender
Yesterday, we talked about the different negotiation styles of men and women. Today, we’re going to explore how men can benefit from learning women-speak and women can benefit from learning man-talk. All of the data relied upon and excerpted below…
Negotiation 101: Gender War or Gender Peace and Prosperity?
Although I am indisputably a “woman lawyer,” I have never thought of myself in those terms. I’m a lawyer. And I’m a woman. I’m also a writer, a step-mother, a wife, a daughter, a river rafter, and an aficionado of…
Negotiating Women on New Day Talk Radio Easter Sunday Noon
(and, yes, I am not only old enough to remember the “Second Wave” Women’s Movement, I took a quite serious role in it, first as an unpaid volunteer and later through the federal government’s “Program for Local Service” at…
Negotiating Women: 5th and Final Part
Thanks again to Vicki Flaugher of SmartWomanGuides.com for inviting me to have this conversation with her about ways in which women can and do maximize their bargaining power. And yes we do talk about negotiating the purchase of an automobile…
This segment of my interview with Vicki Flaughter is primarily about why women don’t negotiate – to their substantial economic detriment – (see Women Don’t Ask Here) and what they can do about it….
In part two of Vicki Flaugher’s interview with me, we discuss ways in which women can comfortably respond to aggressive zero-sum distributive bargainers and negotiate better business deals using their natural strengths. I’d like to once again thank Vicki Flaugher...
Negotiating Women: Never Negotiate Out of Fear, But Never Fear to Negotiate —
Video below is part I of an interview on negotiation challenges, strategies and tactics for women with Vicki Flaugher, founder of SmartWoman Guides. The full audio of the video is here along with Ms. Flaugher’s kind comments about our conversation….
Negotiating Women: Free Teleseminar at Craving Balance
How to Negotiate Anything: Free Intro Thursday, Mar 18, ’10 8pm EST Some researchers say that women’s failure to negotiate working conditions, salary or other compensation–along with their hesitancy to seek what they’re worth when they do negotiate–is one of…
Women Bloggers Proclaim National Women’s History Month
Whereas American women of every race, class, and ethnic background have made historic contributions to the growth and strength of our Nation in countless recorded and unrecorded ways; Whereas American women have played and continue to play a critical…
Update on Gender Diversity in the Judiciary and in ADR
When I posted Negotiating Gender: Why So Few Women Neutrals? I had not yet found a source for the statistical representation of women neutrals on the American Arbitration Association Panel. I’ve now located an article on the AAA website from…
Negotiating Gender: Why So Few Women Neutrals?
Although most of the major providers of alternative dispute resolution services tout their commitment to diversity in the ranks of their neutrals, the coloration of nearly all ADR panels continues to be white; the nationalities European; and the gender male....
Hugh McIssac describes a tiered model used in the Oregon courts for divorcing parents. If one process doesn't work, parents must move through the system of tiers, or processes, until...
By Hugh McIssacDispute Settlement Counselby Michael Zeytoonian.Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God. – Matthew 5:9 Earlier this week my daily meditation focused on this Bible verse,...
By Michael A. ZeytoonianTips for Dealing with Emotion in Mediation You don't have to be a mediator to know that emotional issues lie at the heart of conflict. As Bernard Mayer points out,...
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