Workplace Buzz: Today's Headlines

Working Women’s Progress
Are women making progress? Catalyst, the nonprofit women’s research and advisory organization, announced the following statistics for 2006:� Only 15.6 percent of corporate officer positions at Fortune 500 companies are held by women, as are only 6.7 percent of these companies’ top paid positions. � Women occupy just 14.6 percent of all Fortune 500 board of directors seats, and, at the current rate of change, it will take an estimated 73 years for women to achieve parity with their male counterparts on these boards. Boston Herald

Recalling One Women’s Rights’ Event
They came to Syracuse, N.Y., in September 1852 as a movement gathering steam: Two thousand people crowded into the city hall, electing Lucretia Mott to preside, a force in motion since the meeting that started the movement in Seneca Falls four years before. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, awaiting the birth of her fifth child, sent a letter urging women to refuse to pay taxes until they had representation in the government, advocating equal education for girls and boys and naming religious institutions as "our most violent enemies" for opposing any change in women's status. Susan B. Anthony, then a temperance movement worker, and Matilda Joslyn Gage were in attendance at their first women's rights event. WomensEnews.org

Boss Bashing
Workers are sharpening a new tactic in management-labor battles for supremacy in the workplace: boss-bashing.The technique has been around in one form or another for a while, but lately has seen increasing regularity and ferocity. It consists of publicly deriding top management in an attempt to influence public opinion and, ultimately, force the boss' departure. Star Tribune