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本文选自Harvard Business Review《哈佛经济评论》2014年3月28日刊登的一篇文章,原文标题为“It’s time for a new discussion on ‘women in leadership’”。众所周知,随着社会的发展与女性的解放,女性活动的空间也渐渐跨越了家庭的范围,她们活跃于政坛、商界等几乎所有男性可也涉足的场合;与此同时,女性的作用也远远不止是“the angel in the house”(屋中天使),她们为社会政治、经济等各方面的发展贡献力量。但是,即便如此,女性的智慧与领导能力依然受到很多质疑,在现代企业的高层管理者中女性的人数远远少于男性,而且即使女性的能力得到认可,也往往因其性别而影响其升职。聪明的企业应该如何做呢?让我们来阅读以下本文吧!
The time e to reframe the gender issue. The chancellor of Germany, the head of the IMF, and the chair of the US Federal Reserve are women. General Motors, IBM and Lockheed Martin are run by women. Sixty percent of the world’s university graduates are women, and women control the majority of consumer goods buying decisions. In the US, women under 30 out-earn their male peers and 40% of American households have women as the main breadwinner. In panies and countries where I work, from Iran or Brazil to Russia, managers tell me that they recruit a majority of young women as they clearly outperform their male peers.
And yet women continue to be underrepresented in most businesses, especially at the senior levels. Given this split—women’s potential on the one hand, and their relative absence from the highest levels of business on the other—it is tempting to keep banging on about “fairness” and “equality” on the one hand, or to assume that surely the women who don’t make it to the top must be