Women Lead the Way

3 The Everywoman Quiz

Many myths exist about how quickly women are moving up the ladder. With this “Everywoman Quiz on Women’s Progress,” you can test yourself and your friends on how well women are doing. The facts will help you discard the pervasive “good girl” myths about women’s inevitable rise.

The Patience Myth—the pipeline is full of women, so you must be next— does contain a grain of truth. Women are, indeed, swiftly gaining intellectual heft and consumer and voter clout. As a result, the conventional wisdom is that women in the United States are progressing nicely on all fronts. Unfortunately, our strengths are not yet being translated into filling the power positions with the authority to change the status quo.

This quiz will make sure ...