The Quiet Evolution

The leaders and companies featured in this chapter have moved through the stages of awareness toward congruence and success. These leaders and their companies have decided to be satisfied only when gender balance has been achieved. They use brain-based information and tools to open the minds of both women and men to the full potential of each gender at all corporate levels.
We have hinted throughout this book that we feel there is a gender evolution occurring in corporations. We’ve presented a historical framework for it, noting that our workplaces began as preindustrial or industrial structures in which it was commonly believed that women and men were inherently different, but this belief led to women being underused. ...

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