mistakes women make at workplace

Frankel's book contains common mistakes that women make in the workplace, and coaching tips to get over them. Among them are:

1. Waiting to be given what you want

Ever heard the saying, The squeaky wheel gets the grease? If you don't ask, you won't risk hearing no, but you also won't get what you want.

2. Avoiding office politics

Like it or not, politics is how things get done -- in the workplace, in government, and in professional organizations.

3. Sharing too much personal information

Sharing personal information isn't in and of itself a mistake -- it's sharing too much of it that can come back to bite you.

4. Decorating your office like your living room

The decor of your office should be consistent with the kind of firm in which you work.

5. Over-apologizing

Apologizing for unintentional, low-profile, non-egregious errors erodes our self-confidence -- and, in turn, the confidence others have in us.

There are 96 more mistakes women often make in the workplace, plus tips on how to overcome them, in Frankel's book Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office, which is now out in paperback. And a followup -- which Frankel is writing with Carol Frohhlinger, author of 'Her Place at the Table' -- called 'Nice Girls Don't Win at Life' will be out next summer.

To summarize Frankel's theory: Nice is nice, but it's just not enough.

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Emerging Markets Create Jobs for Women

By Carol Berman

Unless you're a world traveler, emerging markets, such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China, are usually topics for the International section of the newspaper or evening news. Whether it's the economy in Greece affecting our financial markets or problems with Chinese sheet rock affecting the construction of a mother-in-law's apartment over the garage, there's often global impact from international business.

One researcher is targeting the state of women as employees in these countries. As business increases, either from US companies moving in or international companies growing, the role of women is changing. Hewlett is a Columbia University professor and founding president of the Center for Work-LIfe Policy in New York. The report will be out in June, but she wrote a summary for the May issue of the Harvard Business Review.

Women in Developing Countries -- Minds Are Developed, Jobs Are Getting There

Hewlett found that despite the fact that more than half of college graduates in these countries are women, they are being neglected when it comes to recruiting and training for jobs.

Among her findings:

• More than 80% of women in India want to hold a top job (it's 40% in the US).
• 55% of college degrees are going to women in emerging markets (it's 58% in the US).
• Women in emerging markets might be more ambitious than in developed nations because they have fewer children and childcare issues (China has a One Child policy and often extended families help with childcare).

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