Health and Wellness and Women

"At the forefront of the DIYD charge is women (do it yourself doctor), which is perhaps not surprising since women make the health care decisions in over 70% of American households. Women also have a history of medical independence--before the rise of professional doctors, it was mostly "old wives" (and mid-wives) and "home remedy" makers who delivered America's health care"                                   pg 93, "Microtrends" by Mark Penn

The Dream Movie--About making thing happen for you.

According to statistics from the Direct Selling Association, in 2003,

79.9 % of the American direct selling market was female.

" Time and time again, the notion that women are becoming increasingly more successful than men in the network marketing arena is being proven. Substantiated by words from Martha Barletta's book, Marketing to Women, one of her observations is that women tend to put people first...what the product means to the person who uses it is far more likely to seize her attention and hold her interest"

" Kim Klaven, MLM guru and founder of MaxOut Productions says' " It is about how people use the product, which is something wellness women tend to talk about. How do you actually use it rather than how much horsepower does it have. Women are the ones who have been the life-givers, the care-givers, the ones who encourage the others to take care of themselves"

 1. This wellness business is based on relationships and "wellness women" can form new and lasting relationships "with their eyes shut"

2. Word of Mouth Marketing? Women wrote the book on that one!

3. Women are nurturers and in an industry where you succeed by helping others, the fit is perfect

4. Women value Values and they want to invest their time in a value based business.

5. Women are often the Shoppers and make Purchase Decisions Daily

 Small Health and Wellness Business: It's about maintaining a lifestyle that fits you.

Health and wellness  is not just about taking vitamins and minerals or about just eating right. The broader view of wellness encompasses your job and associated lifestyle as well as even more global issues such as pollution and global warming.

Are you tired of fitting in to someone else's schedule, playing the game by someone else's rules, to juggling work and family, to having a boss. 44,000,000 women worldwide have made the decision to join a network marketing company. Why not you, and why not now? It's all up to you.

Questions to ponder?

Why are most women paid less than men for the same work?

Why are there very few women at the top of the Corporate ladder?

Why do more women succeed in their own business than men do?

Why do we think men are great if they can cook, do laundry or use a vacuum cleaner? Women do that all  the time.

I have heard it many times over that the reason women are more likely to succeed in business is because they are not afraid to seek advice from expert sources, therefore they have a better knowledge base than men who tend to think they already know what they need to know.

Women at Work

I sold real estate in Toronto from 1976 to the mid 80's. In all that time some of the top producers were all women. I was in my early 30's then and got a first hand look at how gender equality can work in the market place when there is a level playing field.

According to this article in Canadian Press, woman in the corporate world still are way behind men. That's not only unfair, it's a tremendous waste of talent and resources.

Being a woman doesn't pay - labour congress says men still make more   

OTTAWA - A new report says women are still getting paid less than men, regardless of talent, education or experience.

And the report by the Canadian Labour Congress says women who put off starting a family so they could earn a degree and build a career over the last 10 years are actually worse off than they were before.

It says the wage gap between them and their male counterparts has grown.

The CLC report, coinciding with International Women's Day on Saturday, found that women in Canada who worked full-time, full-year jobs in 2005 earned just 70 cents for every dollar earned by men.

The report says full-time working women earned an average of $39,200 in 2005 compared with $55,700 for men - a wage gap of $16,500.

There were two times more men earning over $60,000 a year than women, and far more women than men worked at jobs that earned less than $35,000.

The majority of people working for minimum wage were women.

In 2005, 11 million women and 11.8 million men filed income tax returns. Over 40 per cent per cent of the women who filed fell below Revenue Canada's low-income cut-off and did not have to pay taxes, compared with 22 per cent of the men who filed.

"As the report shows, the jobs women hold in Canada today mean they get paid less," the labour congress said in a release. "These jobs also mean fewer women are able to access benefits through the federal government's Employment Insurance program.

"It means fewer women have the savings they need when they retire."

The group notes that the wage gap between women and men is smaller in unionized workplaces.

The report makes several recommendations:

-Change employment standards so that full-time hours and part-time hours get paid the same when the same work is done.

-Raise the minimum wage to at least $10 an hour.

-Improve public pension plans so women, who live longer, aren't penalized for taking time away from the workforce to care for children.

-Improve access to quality and affordable child care; the report says two-thirds of women with children under the age of six are working outside the home.

"Canadians don't expect their daughters to earn less than their sons," the congress says. "They don't want the money they pay to send their daughters to university to count for less.

"But unless things change, that's what we have to look forward to."