FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Alia Henson Director of Communications Alia.Henson@careerbliss.

com (949) 333-5566 In the Battle of the Sexes, CareerBliss Data Shows Women Beat out Men in Career Happiness Across the Board Women are Happier at Work Specifically in Areas Concerning Work-life Balance, Growth Opportunities and Benefits Irvine, CA (February 25, 2011) CareerBliss, the leading online career community with millions of open local jobs, company reviews and salary listings, announces new data that explores which sex is happier on the job. The information is based on over a year of research and analysis from more than 200,000 company reviews and reveals that overall women outrank men in all factors of career happiness, specifically in areas concerning work-life balance, flexibility with their work schedule, career advancement, and job security. CareerBliss analyzed more than 1,600,000 data points from employees evaluating the eight factors that affect work happiness: growth opportunities, compensation, benefits, work-life balance, career advancement, senior management, job security and whether the employee would recommend the company to others. The data revealed not only did women rank higher in career happiness than men overall, but on each of the eight factors that impact job satisfaction. Overall Career Happiness Ranking Gender Women Men Happiness Average* 3.546 3.426

* CareerBliss Happiness Ranking: One to five scale of over 200,000 men and women rating eight aspects of job happiness

Career Happiness Ranking by Factor

Factor Benefits package Compensation compared to similar jobs elsewhere Competency of senior management Job Security Open to balancing work and personal life Opportunities for career advancement Professional growth opportunities Would you recommend [company] as a place to work

Men 3.466 3.459 3.459 3.152 3.541 3.252 3.459 3.453

Women 3.535 3.503 3.565 3.246 3.675 3.346 3.549 3.584

The data shows women outrank men in all aspects of career happiness. Areas where both men and women ranked notably high were work-life balance and compensation when they compared their salary to other jobs. Heidi Golledge, Co-Founder and CEO of CareerBliss says,CareerBliss data is unique in that we research not only factors such as salary and job hiring trends, but also the factors that truly impact work-happiness, such as work-life balance and the pride one takes in their work. By letting employees confidentially review their employers and personal career happiness on CareerBliss, we have the opportunity to not only see who is happier, men or women, but what makes them happy and which employers and industries tend to truly value their employees and keep them happy. In addition to their overall career happiness score, CareerBliss also broke out men and womens happiness scores by city and evaluated if compensation played a factor in overall job satisfaction. The data indicates that money does not necessarily have an effect on career happiness. For example, although the data shows women in San Francisco make significantly less than men at 64 thousand a year versus 86 thousand a year, their happiness ranking is higher. This trend was similar in the following cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Miami, Pittsburgh, and Houston. Women vs. Men by City and Salary
City Los Angeles Men's Happiness Rank 3.64 Men's Average Salary $73,435.00 Women's Happiness Rank 3.66 Women's Average Salary $61,625.00

San Francisco Dallas Miami Pittsburgh Houston

3.48 3.59 3.57 3.75 3.41

$86,854.00 $79,857.00 $60,634.00 $67,336.00 $66,245.00

3.72 3.76 3.71 3.8 3.55

$64,735.00 $53,367.00 $43,742.00 $45,909.00 $53,584.00

Matt Miller Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of CareerBliss says, This data is consistent with our research revealing that the true driver of career happiness is not salary, but factors like job security, a persons ability to balance work and home, and the camaraderie they share with co-workers. CareerBliss ability to use confidential employee reviews, enables us to have a better understanding of what impacts the work-place, and truly makes people happy. ### About CareerBliss CareerBliss is an online career community designed to help everyone find happiness in the workplace. An information hub for everyone who works, employers, job seekers and recruiters, CareerBliss offers the ability for people to find out what makes them happy and the ability to seek that out in other jobs or improve it in their current one using our PhD Board of Advisors, more than six million independent company reviews and salary comparisons, and more than three million job listings. For more information, visit: www.CareerBliss.com