It’s the social revolution that goes mostly unnoticed..
When it comes to women in the workforce, the most commented-on indicators are the number of women in the Senate, White House and Fortune 500 leadership. Those indicators seem to move at a glacial pace. But that’s not where the big changes are taking place.
Anyone visiting a TV station would find that while there may be a male anchor, the backbone of the news team, the producers, for example, are almost all female. Here’s an another interesting example in today’s Washington Post — female FBI investigators in charge of white collar probes.
Women dominate university graduation ceremonies — 58%, on average. And more than 80% of the layoffs in the current recession involve men. Women now make up the majority of the workforce, economists report. It’s a fascinating social revolution, and mostly a positive one. But it remains a social revolution that still goes mostly unnoticed.
Tags: female workforce
June 21st, 2009 at 9:21 pm
It is the glass ceiling, along with the women earning 79 cents for every dollar a man earns argument, that power groups like the AAUW not to be concerned by the various trends that this blog regularly reports. Eventually, I expect the CEO and pay numbers to catch up. If most of the college graduates, high GPA students, Doctorates, etc., eventually go to women, it is hard to believe that they won’t catch up and then quickly go ahead on CEO and pay measures. The question is, will it truly take, say, a majority of CEOships at Fortune 500 companies before groups like the AAUW will have any concern about these trends?