Conference Notes

I thought my first 5 pages were well thought out and up to the standards for this research paper.  He wants me to narrow it down to one specific industry instead of just talking about all CEOs; I knew he wanted this by reading his comments on my first five pages.  So I went in thinking that I wanted that industry to be healthcare CEOs because I knew there was a woman CEO for Capital Blue Cross since my mom works there, this women CEO resigned and now there is a man CEO.  During my conference with Dr. Archibald, I got many new ideas to add and to change for my research paper.  In my first paragraph he wants me to give specific examples of the rights women have instead of just naming them and connect it to the women’s movement.  It is going to turn out to be a timeline of examples when these rights were claimed and then end with women are still looking for the equality when it comes to business and being economically equal.  Also, he wants me to research specific points for this new topic.  These points are what is holding women back, is the healthcare industry a success for women, and why can’t this happen in other industries.  I need basic fact as well like salary, compensation, promotions to explain where I want to go with this topic. In the end, I will explain with levels I created that will help women have success in this position.  What I plan to do now is do more research on these specific points and rearrange my paper to follow my new topic of healthcare CEOs.         

Sources for the 3ResProj

All of the sources I have found for my research paper will come in great use to argue the main points I want to focus on. The first thing I did for this research process was just searching my main points, which are the salary differences of men and women CEOs and why men are chosen in the workforce over women. Also, I searched reasons why women might be beneficial to a company. For the salary difference point I found many different sites with a lot of different numbers, but I tried to look for at the more up to date pages. It was cool to see though how the salaries of CEOs have changed over time, but not to see that women are still getting paid less. Then I looked up reasons men are chosen more often than men in occupation spots like a CEO. I found many reasons why workers would rather have men over women in a leadership spot. Most of the sites said that women are more emotional, catty, moody, etc. After finding that, I found reasons why women should be in charge to argue that last point I searched about. I did find many facts and professional opinions that showed the women leaders (CEOs) would be more beneficial to their company. I agree with most of the facts that I have found and they do make really good points. All of these sources I have found except for maybe two or three are important to my paper. The ones that I am going to use give a good amount of information that will help my paper have as much as it can to argue my main points. Then, the other ones that I do not really want to use have little information to help my paper. Also, some of them are out of date and for my one document I used for my synthesis paper, there is no information referring to my topic. I feel that I have enough information to get my point across and make this paper a good argument research paper. 

Conference Notes

Going into the conference I thought my proposal was well thought out because I followed the blog where he explained everything. Also, I had good points and ideas to help my argument for my research project. The ideas I got from talking to Dr. Archibald in my conference was to first narrow down my topic again. My topic overall is Women’s Issues and I was originally going to talk about women’s rights with Business, how they are still not equal in that area. In the conference, Dr. Archibald told me to narrow it down to one industry. After we thought about certain occupations I could consider as my new topic, I chose women as CEOs. I got a lot of new ideas to work with, which are salary of CEOs, the position (why can’t women be in charge, why do people think they can’t), and ideas about what women would bring that is different to men in that same position. I plan to do more research about this topic and find some more ideas before I start the paper. Also, I am excited to find out more about the position of being a CEO and argue why women can be in charge for this occupation.