A recent article in Harvard Business Review takes a deep look at women’s working paths over the course of their careers.
Some of the findings may surprise you.
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The piece, published June 8, was written by Sarah Damaske and Adrianne Frech.
What they discovered in their research was unexpected.
Over 90 percent of Baby-boomer women spent much of their 20s, 30s, and 40s engaging in paid work. Moreover, 60 percent of the women followed what we would think of as a traditionally “male” work pathway – they worked full-time or engaged in “overwork” (working over 50 hours a week) through middle adulthood.
Damaske and Frech put forth two key takeaways from their findings.
Read the article here.
