7 Ways You're Hurting Your Daughter's Future

Someday you want your daughter, niece, goddaughter and best friend’s little girl to grow up and have the option of being a firewoman, a writer, an Olympic gold medalist in boxing, a sergeant, a celebrity chef, the president … or whatever else her little heart desires.

And you want her to get paid the exact same amount for the same work that her male colleagues do.

While equal pay has been in the news a lot lately, research hasn’t quite pinpointed why women don’t make as much as men in the workplace. Some say it’s because we don’t negotiate enough. Some say it’s because when we do negotiate, we get turned down or are deemed too aggressive. Others think it’s because we have a tendency to get saddled with all the family responsibilities. Maybe all of these are true.

Score a Promotion with These 11 Tips From Real Bosses

This story originally appeared on LearnVest.

Have you ever been promoted?

If so, congratulations. If not, there might be something you can do about that.

And we don’t mean “be more confident” or “be more passionate.” We mean specific actions you can take to impress your superiors—and take home a bigger paycheck.

Even if you’re not specifically looking for a flashier title or more money (although who isn’t?), these tips will help you become—or remain—a valued employee.

How did we find such useful tips? We asked the boss.

Global Mobile Subscription to Hit 9bn in 2017

A global survey report released weekend by Ericsson has predicted high increase in the growth of mobile subscriptions worldwide, estimating that the growth will reach 9 billion by the end of 2017.

The present global mobile subscription is put at 6.2 billion, but the actual number of subscribers is about 4.2 billion, since most people have several subscription.

It was noted that the growth rate reached 87 per cent in the first quarter of 2012, to attain the 6.2 billion mark, and that in the next five years, the number would reach the 9 billion mark.

The growth forecast was based on the increase in the number of smartphone  users in recent times across different regions of the world.

Head, Strategic Marketing and Intelligence for Ericsson, Mr. Patrick Cerwall, who spoke to the media on the forecast in Lagos through teleconferencing, said the report was the second release on global mobile subscription, after the first was released November 2011, explaining that Ericsson had always been accurate at its predictions.