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new research in enduring discussion: who earns more?
Is the race over?
For years it seemed common knowledge that women earn less than men. But a report by CondeNast, citing research by Carnegie Mellon University shows some puzzling statistics. The report shows that at all levels in the corporate executive hierarchy -from Vice Presidents to CEO’s - women get paid slightly more than men, while getting promoted at the same rates.
Good news it seems, as it could mean gender no longer plays a role in earning. But that would be a too hasty conclusion, as these aggregate numbers hide the fact that female executives are more likely to quit their jobs earlier on in life. This means a higher proportion of men will be promoted at any given rank. And if wages go up with promotions, which they do, then men will get paid more than women on average. Read more
Female Heroes Interview: Eileen Gittins
Every week we publish an interview with one of our female internet heroes. MEET interesting women, READ about their WORK, THINK about how they PLAY the internet industry and see how you MATCH them. Be inspired! This week: Eileen Gittins.
Eileen Gittins
Eileen is a serial entrepreneur of the truest kind. She has set up a number of web companies, including Personify, an ecommerce data mining and analytics company and Verb, a context-based search engine company. Her current company Blurb was founded from Eileen’s passion for photography and from the realization that the idea for Blurb was “the idea that doesn’t leave you, that comes back to you while you are under the shower.” The result is a web company that allows anyone to print a book, whether they need ten or a hundred copies. More importantly however, it is a company to which many can relate; artists, families, photography hobbyists, and even Eileen’s mom. Eileen: “My mother used to say: ‘Eileen is in the internet.’ Now she says ‘Eileen runs a company where anyone can make a book.’ There is something very nice about doing something so concrete, something people get.”
Thenextwomen talked to Eileen about why founding a company from a passion is so fulfilling, her success, her mistakes and what she learned from them.
· How did you come to set up Blurb?
Funding 3,6 mio: JS-Kit by Altos through TheFunded
Nancy Cole (with Patrick de Laive of thenextweb)
JS-KIT, with General Manager Nancy Cole, a professional developers of widgets for publishers, has closed a $3.6 financing this week with Altos Ventures. According to Kris Loux: “An important resource for the company was The Funded Connect which made the initial introductions”. TheFunded Connect, founded by Adeo Rossi, is a free service to streamline fundraising, and greatly supported by among others Cathy Belk, CMO of JUMPSTART. For TheFunded is was the first deal after its launch. Read more
Top 50 Women in Mobile Content
ann williams, founder okto
As Sarah O’Keeffe of Bango received one of the Mobile Entertainment Awards 2008, the celebration of the 2008 Mobile Entertainment magazine’s list of the Top 50 Women in Mobile Content is continuing. In view thereof, we publish this list and point out some of the female internet heroes on it, i.e. the founders, CxO’s and investors.
Carole Faure (France) Founder and CEO, Kaolink, the French developer, which works closely with Gameloft.
Sabine Irrgan (Germany) Founder and COO, GoFresh. Over one million users signed up to itsmy.com, its an ad funded social network.
Louisa Jackson (UK) Founder and Director of Content, VidZone, the UK music and video distributor, which now takes content to 140 services globally.
Ann Williams (Brasil) Founder and CEO, Okto, a powerhouse in the huge Brazilian content market offering SMS and WAP services to operators, brands and financial institutions.
American internet heroes
The US has leading the way in showing women leading or funding internet companies. In compiling our database of female internet heroes, we come across a lot of American entrepreneurs, CxO’s and VC’s. A lot of these women have started in Silicon Valley or have close ties to the area. We will list a few of them today:
Esther Dyson is an internet visionary and investor and are already around a long time. She is primarily investing in start-ups and guiding many of them as a board member. She was visionary with positions at - among others - Flickr, Delicious. She on the board of 23andme, of co-founder Anne Wojcicki. She invested also in lesser known companies, such as eTribes, a British (once) startup that provided identity management and community services, but now seems to be more a photo sharing site. She sold EDventure Holdings to CNET Networks in 2004. Recently she has been investing mostly in online services, health care/genetics, and space travel.
Other women that have been around are Meg Whitman, ex e-Bay and Jean Armour Polly, founder of netmom.com, and the first woman elected to the Internet Society board of Trustees. She is currently working on connecting rural libraries to the Internet. Read more
Fake profiles on social networks
This week a new media campaign around the negative representation of female CEO’s in The Netherlands will be introduced. And you know what? It will use the social web to its fullest. Female Internet Hero Shula Rijxman, Chief Commercial Officer at IDTV, is the brain behind the idea. In short: the CEO will become a SHEO and will be brought to life and as a consequence the negative representation will become positive representation! 
First, a guerilla marketing action is planned, which is - by the way - not so guerrilla when you announce it first. During this wild action, parking spots of companies’ VIPS’s will be ‘reserved for SHEO’s’. After that, some traditional advertising will take place presenting the SHEO to the public. Also, at airports SHEO business lounges will be opened. Lastly, drama series will be produced about the worklife to the top of 3 SHEO’s.
Internet will come into play in combination with these drama series. At social networks like Hyves, Linkedin, Facebook, Xing and the one you have, these three SHEO’s will submit their profiles. And so they will be brought to life. If you want to contact them, an editorial board will impersonate the SHEO’s and answer your questions. Read more
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