Why Men Earn More

Dr. Warren Farrell began his research on gender issues in the ‘60s. His first book, The Liberated Man, was published in 1974. It was from the women’s perspective and the feminist perspective. By the ‘80s, he began noticing that men were feeling misrepresented, and his award-winning national best-seller, Why Men Are The Way They Are, was written to answer women’s questions about men in a way that rings true for men. The New York Post calls it "the most important book ever written about love, sex, and intimacy."

By the ‘90s, Dr. Farrell felt the misunderstandings about men had deepened and become dangerous to the survival of families and love. He confronted the misunderstandings head-on with the award-winning The Myth of Male Power, a book the The Library Journal ranked as “better than Robert Bly’s Iron John or any of Betty Freidan’s works.” (His books are published in over 50 countries in 13 languages.)

By the turn of the century Dr. Farrell wanted to provide the sexes with the tools to communicate--
in particular to hear personal criticism from a loved one, especially when given badly. That was the take-off point for Women Can’t Hear What Men Don’t Say, a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. By 2001 Dr. Farrell completed research he had been working on for 13 years on the conditions under which children of divorce are most likely to be raised successfully. That book, Father and Child Reunion, has renewed the commitment of many dads to be with their children,
and its research has helped judges understand the importance of dads.

Warren’s most recent book is Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap -- and What Women Can Do About It. It documents why the pay gap is not about discrimination but about 25 differences between men and women’s work-life decisions.

Warren has appeared on over 1000 TV and radio shows, and been interviewed frequently by Oprah and Barbara, and by Larry King and Peter Jennings. He has been featured repeatedly on 20/20 and in The New York Times, in People and on Real People, in men's journals and The Wall Street Journal, and on the Today Show, the Tomorrow Show, and even To Tell The Truth.

Warren Farrell’s understanding of both sexes is symbolized by his being, on the one hand, on the boards of four national men’s organizations, and on the other hand, being the only man in the US to be elected three times to the Board of Directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City. Similarly, he has started over 600 men's and women's groups, and over 200,000 women and men have attended his workshops worldwide. He is the only person chosen to speak at both of former California Governor Wilson’s 1995 conferences – his Conference on Men and his Conference on Women.

President Johnson chose Dr. Farrell as one of the outstanding young educators in the United States. (The man's been around for awhile!) He has taught political science, psychology, women’s studies and sociology, and most recently taught at the School of Medicine at the University of California at San Diego. Dr. Farrell has been chosen by the International Biographic Centre of London as one of the World’s 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 20th Century and, in quite a different take, chosen by the Financial Times as one of the worlds top 100 Thought Leaders.

Keynoting Women in Business Conferences

Dr. Farrell's keynotes to women-in-business conferences involve full audience participation. Since leadership is developed less by being talked at and more by having our own strengths discovered, Dr. Farrell will wrap up with a unique question-and-answer period that includes helping the audience discover their own answers.

Dr. Farrell's presentations begin with the most important research from Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap -- and What Women Can Do About It. His research uncovered twenty-five differences between what men and women do in the workplace.

Here’s the rub. Everything men do leads to more money; everything women do leads to more balanced lives—and usually, to better lives. So you don’t just want to imitate men.

When this research is combined with thirty years of work with men, women, businesses and families, Dr. Farrell is able to explain how each work decision translates into a work-life decision. The road to high pay is a toll road. The trick is discerning which tolls are worth it. (For example, traveling may be a plus for a single person, but under what conditions is it worth it for a parent?)

The good news is that any woman who wishes to earn as much or more than a man can do it now. We now know twenty-five specific ways women can out-earn men, and more than 80 fields in which women out-earn men. We know that women have special skills and talents that are valued as much or more in male-dominated professions.

Speaking Topics

Business Skills:
"Why Men Earn More - and What Women Can Do About It"?

Change:
"Self Debate" and "The Future of Men and Women"

Communications:
"How to Help Men and Women Communicate"

Financial Success:
Why Men Earn More and What Women Can Do About It"

Futurists:
"The Future of Men and Women"

Human Potential:
"Why Men Earn More and What Women Can Do About It"; "Self Debate"; "How to Give Criticism so it Can Easily be Heard .. and Hear Criticism so it Can Easily be Given"; and "How to Succeed At Work Without Failing at Home"

Negotiating Skills:
"How to Help Men and Women Communicate"

Relationships:
"How to Give Criticism so it Can Easily be heard and Hear Criticism so it Can Easily be Given"; and "How to Succeed At Work Without Failing at Home"

Team Building:
"Making Diversity User-Friendly to Men ... and the Bottom Line"

Time Management:
"How to Succeed At Work Without Failing at Home"

Communication prevents litigation. People rarely sue people for whom they feel compassion. Train your human resource team to help women understand the twenty-five different workplace trade-offs men are more likely to make that often leads to men earning more. The result? When a woman sees a man promoted before her, she’ll know what to do--rather than feel undervalued and sue. She’ll have both a roadmap of 25 ways to higher pay—all of which are explained in Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and What Women Can Do About It, and she’ll have compassion for the people willing to make the trade-offs.

Of course, doing this before you’re sued is preferable (hence “Get Him to Your Company on Time”). And don’t discount getting a bulk order of Why Men Earn More at a discount. (They can be cheaper than Farrell in the flesh, and you can skip what you don’t want to heard!)