Glass Half-Broken

 

CHAPTER 2

SCARCE, SCRUTINIZED, AND STILL CLIMBING

Women in Leadership

Recall the voices of undergraduates from the previous chapter, who noticed a lack of women in the senior ranks of the fields and firms they were on the cusp of entering. “The legal field is still mostly male-dominated,” one aspiring law student noted. “There’s not many women at the partner level,” said another of the consulting firm she would soon be joining. “All the executives on the other side of the table,” observed another student after a job interview, “were men.” Recall too how students explained these disparities as the vestige of practices that no longer prevailed. These young women assumed with confidence that for their own careers, “the gender part doesn’t ...