The Harvard Business Review (Sept. 2007) reports that the scarcity of women at the top reflects "the sum of discrimination that has operated at all ranks," and not any particular obstacle to advancement as women approach the executive suite.
Most efforts aimed at increasing the presence of women in the upper echelons of U.S. business focus solely on bridging the final step between the middle tiers and the top ranks. But Alice H. Eagly, a professor of psychology at Northwestern University and Linda L. Carli, an associate professor of psychology at Wellesley College argue that smaller, more subtle reforms are needed to address the more fundamental problem.
A multipronged approach will be the only way to lift women to the top of more companies.
Women executives need to ask themselves if the timing is right to consider?:
· Transforming your work and your business relationships?
· Re-energizing yourself and your career?
· Learning the unwritten Rules of Success for any business woman?
If so, join me, John Agno, of Signature Inc., and Barb McEwen of 20/20 Executive Coaching, Inc. at one of our women-only Signature Seminar Series focused on Same Workplace, Different Realities. For more information or to register, go to: www.ExecutiveWoman.info
