Sexism?

'The advance of women to company boardrooms is slowed not by discrimination but by the decisions of women workers themselves, the report also found.
The poll of 3,000 members of the Institute of Leadership and Management revealed that women managers have lower levels of ambition and confidence than their male counterparts.
Ambition: Penny de Valk claims women managers lack confidence at work compared with men
Only 30 per cent of women under the age of 30 said they expect to become senior managers, it found – compared with 45 per cent of men.
Half of women managers said they have a high level of confidence, against 70 per cent of men. Some 73 per cent of women say there is a glass ceiling limiting their prospects of promotion – but only 36 per cent of women feel their own careers have been hindered.
Only 38 per cent of men said that they believe women are held back.
And nearly half of female managers of all ages – 47 per cent – believe there should be quotas of women in the boardroom.
ILM chief executive Penny de Valk said: ‘Women managers tend to lack self-belief and confidence at work compared with men.
‘Women feel a greater sense of risk around promotion, which leads to a more cautious approach to career opportunities.’
The report said: ‘At every stage the career ambitions of women were found to lag behind those of their male counterparts.
‘Fewer women than men have ambitions to reach middle management, department head, general management or director level.’ But women appeared to be far more confident when it comes to starting their own companies, the survey found.'

As somebody who fully supports equality for women in the workplace, I feel the information above is long overdue. For too long, we have had to listen to the bleating of feminists who have discovered plots where none existed.

Add this to the 'interrupted career patterns' to which I have often drawn attention and there can be a much better understanding of workings of our society today.
'Quotas'? - No thanks! That kind of unfairness is simply iniquitous.

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