Mastering the S-Curve of High-Powered Careers Are we creating unhappy women?
A friend of mine is terribly worried that our next generation of high-achieving women may be destined for unhappiness because they will have difficulty in finding husbands. Are our self-affirming messages to today’s smart, capable young women setting them up for future misery? This well-intentioned concern raises some interesting points. First, it assumes that a [...]
Are boardroom quotas a good idea?
France is joining Norway by adopting the quota approach for achieving gender parity on Boards. ForbesWoman/Forbes.com has asked for views on whether the US should follow suit, and heated debate has ensued — and keep in mind this is a LinkedIn group with a female membership. Click an icon below to share and recommend this [...]
How can they be sure?*
Highly educated young women are reportedly intending to opt out of the career achievement cycle. Is this next generation of women taking too much for granted, or are they wiser than we think?It was not that long ago that women finally won the right to vote in the US, and it was just within the [...]
