I can give you a good tip that will improve your business and your marketing power, stop discriminating against men and you will find that marketing to ALL people brings in far more results and will stop you from alienating half the population.

I can’t believe that in this day and age we have women trying to bring back discrimination, undoing all the progress made so far. If it was men doing it against women then I think you would be the first to be complaining about it.

@Funkymum: Men don’t want to have “male awards” because then they would have to admit they are not recognizing women. Keep things the way they are and that predominatntly male world continues on as is with few women speaking up about it. And you better duck if you do speak up or you might get hit with that discrimination card they throw out there when we get any attention. Women think like women. Women want someone that can relate to their way of thinking and teach them in a way that they understand. Who better to do that than another woman? For women to give another woman an award for that is just another way of thanking them and clearing the pathway for more to follow. Chicks rule!

Women bloggers are great, women in business are great, but if they have to discriminate against men in order to make themselves stand near the top of their ‘filtered’ profession then I think they need to rethink how good they are.

Men have a difficult time with work/family balance because its usually the men who have to miss out on their children growning up as their wife claims all her maternity, then feels hard done to if she has to leave the kids to work. Men on average get to see their kids far less than the kids mums do but we dont cry about it, we just get on with the job.

I get fed up with reading in my local paper about more ‘women only’ events. Its a negative trend that has been creeping on us in recent years as more and more women choose to practice discrimination.

I would be happy if women just got on with the job without the need to reward themselves in a discriminatory way. I love working with women but I do tend to avoid those that want to be sexist, discriminatory and self praising.

I don’t see anything wrong with recognizing the accomplishments of women.

One of the reasons why women in business are recognized with awards such as “Businesswoman of the Year” is because it is tough for many women who balance work/family life to achieve the same kind of success as our male counterparts and it is still important to recognize the success of women in our own way. For example, in Canada every year we have the Profit100 awards which recognize the top 100 Canadian businesses by profit. All of these companies are billion dollar companies and there is only one woman on this list. A few months after publishing the Profit100 they do a W100 which is the top 100 female owned businesses based on profit. The earnings of the W100 are far less than Profit100 because the reality is that many women choose to run smaller businesses. Many of the women on the W100 list also have children. I believe these women, although their earnings aren’t as high as men, deserve this unique recognition.

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