With unprecedented numbers of women entering higher education on an equal par with their male counterparts, perhaps the Second Sex,” as Simone de Beauvoir deemed women, can finally claim they have arrived on equal footing in a man’s world. But not so fast. If the number of women entering higher education has increased so much, how come so few of them are making it into the executive suites and boardrooms five or ten years after receiving that MBA and a handshake?Half a century after de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan decried that women were victims of a system that made them feel inferior in most domains outside their homes, a recent World Economic Forum report shows that large discrepancies still exist.
Herminia Ibarra
INSEAD Professor Herminia Ibarra, co-author of the WEF report, throws some light on exactly where different countries stand on the issue of gender equality in the corporate world and why women are still facing barriers to attain both the highest echelons and “mission critical” roles at all.
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