In truth, though, this just fits the pattern, whereby women are entering such professions as medicine and the law and yet are still conspicuous by their absence in the higher echelons. In fact, a Harvard Business Review article makes a slightly different point than the one usually inferred - that women have insufficient faith in themselves - and this is that women take a different approach to men when applying for jobs. And since the numbers of women on these courses are very low, there will necessarily be few women who will succeed. But she still sees an "overlay" of traditional attitudes about such matters as pay and roles for men and women among male teenagers. "We need to empower young women to question things.

Source: Forbes March 08, 2017 17:12 UTC