Hewlett’s more recent national survey found that the typical young woman graduate plans to have a high paying job, take two to three years off to have children and benefit from career flexibility that lets her pop back in to the workplace when the mood strikes. Many have suggested that it has to do with the choices women make to fulfill personal life ambitions.Įven today, many young women don’t foresee that these choices will affect their career success. The reasons are complicated, and it isn’t just sexism.
At this rate it will take a little over 100 years for us to represent half of the CEO’s in the Fortune 500, in the year 2128.Īlthough the number of CEO’s is a lofty benchmark, in general even at the lower reaches, workplace parity is coming at a glacial pace. Eight of the CEO’s on the Fortune 500 were women a couple of years ago. Yet, despite the sacrifices many women make in order to climb the corporate ladder, women are still woefully under represented in top executive ranks. Indeed, economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett made news a few years ago when she presented the statistic that 49% of mid-career women who made $US100,000 a year or more were childless, compared to only 10% of men.
Many mid-career women have forsaken motherhood to obtain career goals. Gatrell found, “women who explicitly choose career over kids are often vilified at work.”Ĭonventional wisdom says just the opposite: Sacrificing baby-making is often necessary in the calculus of getting ahead at work. Caroline Gatrell at Lancaster University in England.
The blog’s author Jackie May, an editor for The Times world pages in South Africa, penned these seemingly heretical comments after learning of alarming research by Dr. I had to pause when I came across a blog out of South Africa that read, “I think a way forward, or backwards some of you might say, is to encourage our smart, savvy and capable daughters to marry for money.” Since I co-authored a book with a similar premise, this sassy assertion definitely grabbed my attention.
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