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Comment on Are Corporates anti-women? by Mayur

Mayur — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:13:46 +0000

I think the responsibility lies with women themselves. I dont think the MNCs or for that matter even the Indian corporates are anti-women. Though I agree that women today are bound more by socio-cultural boundaries than by a handful of chauvinistic men.

Vidyut has a point, very important point.

Comment on Are Corporates anti-women? by Prasad

Prasad — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:18:31 +0000

@Vidyut – I would agree. Even my wife had to compromise on her career for our child. However, the study suggests otherwise – women who were single or were not having children still were lagging behind their male colleagues. There is some kind of bias there in the system, dont you think?

@Pallavi – thats what the friend whose company posted the initial article said about the Indian scenario.

Comment on Are Corporates anti-women? by pallavi

pallavi — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:48:46 +0000

okay,since I never worked with a MNC I don’t know if they are anti women or not but as I have some of them as clients I really don’t think its true!

It is women, women and more of our species you see in every department! from the ground level ( I mean security) to the top positions.

btw in the media industry if not more at least 50% of them are women!

So yeah it might just take for the ratio to equal as those of men but it is steadily growing…

PS: in our society at some level or other the fight is not going to be easy for us, for simple reasons that though menfolk offer a helping hand yet a chunk of home front responsibities comes on our shoulders

Comment on Are Corporates anti-women? by Vidyut

Vidyut — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:59:22 +0000

good read. But I think that Child bearing has an impact on women’s career growth. At least this is true for me. My career is at a halt since the birth of my baby. Many times women have to compromise career for child care.

Comment on Laptop comparison by Prasad

Prasad — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:48:40 +0000

@Ashish – you are welcome
@Niyant – The parameter I had said was simple cost. What you are indicating though is Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) which a lot of procurement managers swear by. A line comes to mind on TCO … “If TCO is the parameter to choose, then buy a pencil” . However good point made, but why would you want to upgrade from XP to 7? I have a monster machine at home, I still run XP on it.

Comment on Laptop comparison by niyant

niyant — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:22:10 +0000

It’s a great chart and will help make an objective decision.

I’ve been a Toshiba user for a lot of years now – my first laptop was a Toshiba and so is my second one though I might lean towards the Apple when I consider my next purchase.

I have a slightly different opinion wrt Apple being rated only ‘1′ on Price. Agreed Apple’s macbooks are priced at a premium when compared to the PC-based laptops but it may not be as simple as considering the upfront cost. I was having a discussion with a friend who’s been using a macbook pro for the last 7 yrs or so and he explained that if his were a pc-based laptop he would’ve had to upgrade because he would not be able to run the latest version of the windows os at a decent speed on older hardware. He said that with macs, this ain’t the case. He runs snow leopard with equal ease on his old machine — OSX is more efficiently built and better integrated with the hardware. While one might have to go through a forced upgrade of a pc every few years (based on one’s individual tolerance limits), this may not be the case with macs.

So, consider I bought a pc-based laptop for $900 in YR1, and my friend bought a macbook pro for $1500 at the same time. Now its Y5 and my windows OS is two generations old (WinXP -> Win7), and loading the latest windows OS makes my machine crawl – so I scrap my laptop and get a new one for another $900 (or more with inflation kicking in). On the other hand my friend is still getting great performance with his macbook pro. So, I end up spending upwards of $1800 on my pc-based hardware while my friend has yet spent only $1500 on his mac.

So, whats more cost-effective?

Comment on Laptop comparison by Aina

Aina — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:44:03 +0000

And I am very thankful for the comparision!

Comment on Are Corporates anti-women? by Prasad

Prasad — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:05:40 +0000

@LC – I agree with you to an extent. But I also want to add society to that list.

@Don – I disagree, the changing scenario is an argument oft stated earlier. Infact the HBR article I linked takes some effort into blowing this “it will take time” alibi. Do read it!!

Comment on Laptop comparison by Prasad

Prasad — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:01:20 +0000

@durga – Shucks, I experienced excellent service from Dell on both occassions. Maybe because for both the times I was associated with one institution or the other. Their retail service might be bad.

@Ni – Changed the price weightage. Thanks for pointing that out. Another approach that comes to mind is to list down your expectations. And work from there.

Comment on Laptop comparison by Niharika

Niharika — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:52:12 +0000

WOW! love the interactive excel. one thing tho, the wt for price is missing. i would give that the highest wt. cos even tho according to this scale apple and sony score high, they also come at a higher price so to make it a fair comparison and also show the importance ppl give to price, there shld be an option to put a wt to it.

Another approach is to figure how people make buying decisions…most people start with a budget and then move backwards to get the best deal in that budget according to their needs. Livemint had made an analysis of laptops using this approach. Chk it here… http://www.livemint.com/2010/01/26230008/Before-the-last-lap.html