The pathway of the female CEO, Meg Whitman, to approach success is detailed in http://www.hudong.com/wiki/%E6%A2%85%E6%A0%BC%C2%B7%E6%83%A0%E7%89%B9%E6%9B%BC
The most interesting point of the case is one trip to China changed Meg's mother and her viewpoints on career and success. It is assumed what impressed and shocked Meg's mother when she is in China was women's status in society (Yishan Wu). From then on she believed she could do what she wants to do and also encouraged her daugher, Meg, to pursue and realize what she wants.
外表平易近人的梅格·惠特曼，与惠普前任CEO卡莉·菲奥里纳热情洋溢的煽动性演讲相比，她深沉内敛且言语淳朴平实，毫无激情。不过这丝毫不会影响或动摇股东和投资人对她的信任。eBay在刚结束的2005年第一财季取得了“净营收10.32亿美元，同比增长36%；净利润为2.563亿美元，同比增长28%”的业绩，而eBay连续数年超过50%的增长率也让华尔街为之瞠目。
梅格·惠特曼私下生活一样过得很平凡。作为世界上最富有的女人的她却丝毫没有奢侈的概念。作为仅次于惠普总裁卡莉的全球第二大最有影响力的女性经理人，梅格·惠特曼也是一位响当当的女中豪杰。但与卡莉不同的是，惠特曼没有商业领袖的明星派头，她没有专属的直升飞机，也没有豪华的装扮。她衣着朴素，是一位务实、老派、低调、严肃的人。“我喜欢穿着eBay的T恤衫出现在机场，这样人们一见到我，就会问我是不是在eBay工作，在得到肯定的回答后，他马上会兴奋地告诉我：‘我在eBay上的商业信用又多了几百点’，”惠特曼说：“在告诉我他的名字之前，他又会滔滔不绝地说他在eBay上卖什么样的产品。这就是eBay令人神往的地方”。
惠特曼倡导平等理念，她在不大的办公室中工作，看起来与雇员并无二致。不但每天都会亲自阅读一百多封eBay用户的电子邮件，而且还要经常参与网络交易。惠特曼认为她的工作颇似主持市政会议的市长，民众希望她为大家的商业经营提供最好的基础设施，也希望她使每一个人都按规则办事，因为她是我们信得过的朋友。
因为母亲在20世纪70年代有过访问中国的难忘经历，梅格·惠特曼对中国也有着特殊的感情，并积极推动与易趣网的合作，密切关注中国电子商务市场。她的大儿子现在在北京上学，他对中国很着迷，想更多地了解中国，想学普通话，梅格·惠特曼也很支持他。
Monday, September 21, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
The Notes on Women Scientists' Preference/Style
Holton, G. (1999). "Different Perceptions of "Good Science" and Their Effects and Careers." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 869: 78-86.
One way to escape some of the rough-and-tumble competition of life at science’s frontier is to choose a problem or subfield, a niche where with luck one can work on a problem that is important and yet not at the center of those volcanic eruptions. And that is what our women had done more often than our men. It fits with the famous remark which Marie Curie is said to have made, when she was asked why she chose to work on what was later called radioactivity – a field from which even its chance discoverer, Henri Becquerel, had withdrawn. Her response was, “I chose this field because there was no bibliography.” This approach may also have a connection to our finding that while in graduate school, women were more collaborative, but after the postdoc they became less collaborative than men, on average.
The finding is so interesting that I may relate the collaboration pattern between men and women scientists with the problems/subfields men and women choose differently.
Also, this may help explain the gender gap in publication productivity - improving the quality of publication outcomes at the cost of their quantitiative side.
One way to escape some of the rough-and-tumble competition of life at science’s frontier is to choose a problem or subfield, a niche where with luck one can work on a problem that is important and yet not at the center of those volcanic eruptions. And that is what our women had done more often than our men. It fits with the famous remark which Marie Curie is said to have made, when she was asked why she chose to work on what was later called radioactivity – a field from which even its chance discoverer, Henri Becquerel, had withdrawn. Her response was, “I chose this field because there was no bibliography.” This approach may also have a connection to our finding that while in graduate school, women were more collaborative, but after the postdoc they became less collaborative than men, on average.
The finding is so interesting that I may relate the collaboration pattern between men and women scientists with the problems/subfields men and women choose differently.
Also, this may help explain the gender gap in publication productivity - improving the quality of publication outcomes at the cost of their quantitiative side.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
My first publication
Although there are many regrets related to this publication: not firt author, not SCI journal, not high impact journal, etc. But, publication is publication! I'm still excited with the birth of my first research baby:)
Sunday, October 21, 2007
China Daily: One third Chinese scientists are women
Updated: 2007-08-19 14:01
Women constitute more than one third of scientists in China, according to an international seminar on women in science recently held in Beijing.
"More than 70 women are academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) or the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), said Deng Nan, vice president of the China Association for Science and Technology, at the seminar.
However, the proportion of women technicians and engineers are significantly low in the engineering field," said Shi Liying, deputy secretary-general of the CAE.
"Currently, the CAE has 38 female academicians, only accounting for 5.4 percent of the total," Shi said.
The China Association for women Scientists was officially established during the meeting, with the aim to help women scientists give full play to their role in economic and social development.
The seminar, which attracted scholars from some other developing countries such as Egypt, India and Mexico, focused on five topics including the relationship between women and science, how to attract more women into the field of science and major factors behind the success of female scientists.
The orgianl article: http://chinadigitaltimes.net/tag/Women
Women constitute more than one third of scientists in China, according to an international seminar on women in science recently held in Beijing.
"More than 70 women are academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) or the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), said Deng Nan, vice president of the China Association for Science and Technology, at the seminar.
However, the proportion of women technicians and engineers are significantly low in the engineering field," said Shi Liying, deputy secretary-general of the CAE.
"Currently, the CAE has 38 female academicians, only accounting for 5.4 percent of the total," Shi said.
The China Association for women Scientists was officially established during the meeting, with the aim to help women scientists give full play to their role in economic and social development.
The seminar, which attracted scholars from some other developing countries such as Egypt, India and Mexico, focused on five topics including the relationship between women and science, how to attract more women into the field of science and major factors behind the success of female scientists.
The orgianl article: http://chinadigitaltimes.net/tag/Women
Thursday, September 13, 2007
A New Indicator for Scientific Archievement
H-index was created by Jorge Hirsch, a physical statistician in UCSD, and has been accepted as a more scientific and less unbiased indicator than publication and citation indicator to examine a specific scientist's achievement and even predicate his/her contribution in the future. H-index, basically, identifies how many papers of a given scientist have been cited at least how many times. For instance, the H-index of Ed Witten is 110, indicating that Ed has 110 papers and each paper has been cited at least 110 times.
For more details, please check out the original article
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/0708.0646
For more details, please check out the original article
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/0708.0646
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