Does Doing All the Right Things Really Get Women Ahead?
So goes the provocative title from the latest piece of research on gender equality from Catalyst, (a non profit membership organization for women in business). Their research is usu- ally worth reading so I turned to it with interest.
The Answer is No!
In brief, the research concludes that the answer is no, women do not get ahead by doing all the ‘right’ things! They studied 3,345 what they called ‘high potentials, those likely to succeed that had followed a traditional career program after completing a full time MBA. They chose a group in full time work, without any breaks etc so as to get as good a comparison between men and women as possible. Men Benefited More
They found that overall men benefited more than women when adopting the recommended strate- gies for getting ahead. Even when women used the same career advancement strategies – doing all the things they have been told will get them ahead-they advanced less than their male counterparts and had slower pay growth.
9 Classic Strategies for Career Advancement The report looked at 9 tactics high potential candi- dates used to advance their careers. Over a series of 9 posts I’ll be looking at the report in bite sized chunks with tip and hints from Catalyst and me! (You
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