Friday, July 24, 2015

More Than Their Mothers, Young Women Plan Career Pauses

An excerpt:
Women’s expectations have declined: 66 percent of millennial women said they expected their careers to be equal to those of their spouses, compared with 79 percent of baby boomers. Three-quarters of millennial women said they expected to succeed in combining their careers and family life, but that is a significant drop from the 86 percent of baby boomer women who said the same.
And this one:
A study of female students graduating from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania found that while 78 percent of the business school graduates in 1992 said they planned to have children, that share had dropped to 42 percent by 2012. In some cases they did not want to, and in others they did not think they could make it work because of a lack of organizational support, according to Stewart Friedman, director of Wharton’s work/life integration project. 
Read more in the NYT.

Thanks, +Stephanie Gaufin 

Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were

"It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers." Read more in the NYT .