So Few Women At the Top Still
What we'd been told for years was it was the "pipeline;" once more women entered corporate America, they'd eventually make their way to the top. But the numbers of women in top leadership positions hasn't budged much, despite the fact that there has been a steady flow of women graduating from professional schools. There are plenty of women at the bottom and middle of corporations....but very few at the top.
So what's the reason? Well, the Times goes to the same predictable sources (Korn Ferry, Bartz, and other women in their late 50s who made it to the top) and comes up with the usual: Discrimination from the old boys' club. The writer doesn't actually utter that word--glass ceiling--but it's the same explanation.
Here's the problem with that: Many women are leaving because the workplace--particularly at the top--is still based on the assumption that you will have a mate at home, taking care of your personal life. They simply didn't want to make the same kinds of personal sacrifices that men have had to make to succeed in those positions. So they leave.
Does it mean women are less ambitious? Well, it means their ambitions are different.
Stumble It!
posted by pam at 10:37 PM
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