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What's Really Holding Women Back
Ely, Robin J.; Padavic, IreneArticle HBS-R2002C-ELeadership and People ManagementHigh-level jobs require extremely long hours, women's devotion to family makes it impossible to put in those hours, and so their careers inevitably suffer. Not so, say the authors, who spent 18 months working with a global consulting firm that wanted to know why it had so few women in positions of power. Although virtually every employee the authors interviewed related a form of the standard explanation, the firm's data told a different story. W...Starting at €8.20
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Rethink What You "Know" About High-Achieving Women
Ely, Robin J.; Stone, Pamela; Ammerman, ColleenArticle HBS-R1412G-ELeadership and People ManagementOn the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the admission of women to Harvard Business School's MBA program, the authors, who have spent more than 20 years studying professional women, set out to learn what HBS graduates had to say about work and family and how their experiences, attitudes, and decisions might shed light on prevailing controversies. What their comprehensive survey revealed suggests that the conventional wisdom about women's career...Starting at €8.20