According to The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything, for the first time in U.S. history, women are about to become the majority of the nation’s paid worker. “Today, women are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in 63.3% of American families.”7 Here is a little excerpt from the report:
Look around your workplace, and calculate the percentage of women. Now look at top management. How many of those corner offices are occupied by women? For the vast majority of U.S. workplaces, the answer is 20% or less, even though women make up 48% of the total workforce. As Newsweek columnist Anna Quindlen writes in The Leadership Lid: “One of the greatest natural resources in America is going underused. And she may be sitting right at ...
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