Are Women Scared of Power and Success ?
What is the primary reason behind the fact that women don’t represent the top corporate world proportionally as men? Is it because they don’t want to experience power and success? Or is it because of the fact that women lack the appetite and ambition needed for power that is required to move up the ladder of success? Women are not represented proportionally at the upper levels of the businesses. While women constitute 47.6% of the Fortune 500 workforce and 52% of middle management, in these companies they represent just 15% of the executive officers, 7.5% of the highest paid and 4% of all the CEOs.
If you delve deeper, you will see that there are lots of theories on why women don’t get selected for higher positions or why they stall out while climbing the organizational ladder. The workplace and offices usually recognize and value masculine over feminine ways of … Read More ...