Part One
The Challenge
The first part of this book “maps” career pathways and explores career drivers. The focus is on contrasts and differences between highly qualified men and women.
Forty years after the women’s revolution transformed female opportunities, women’s work lives remain very different from men’s. Fully 60 percent of highly qualified women have nonlinear careers. They take offramps and scenic routes and have a hard time conjuring up continuous, cumulative, lockstep employment—which is a necessary condition for success within the confines of the white male competitive model. The end result: too many talented women either leave their careers or languish on the sidelines.
Employers miss out too. For reasons that range from a tightening ...
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