Women and Work

Work is a four letter word but is its future male or female led? Lots of chatter in the Media over recent weeks about the role women play in the workplace. Much focused on questioning why after over a decade of girls out performing boys we are not seeing that dominance transferred to the world of work. Plenty of ideas for students to discuss; Lord Davies’ idea of a 25% Female quota in boardrooms by 2015 or research from Institute of Leadership and Management examining the ‘Glass ceiling’ in 2011 UK. Most interesting for me was that according to figures from Bright Grey, almost half of women describe themselves as the main earner in their household. Getting very close to the tipping point on conventional notions of a male identity as the ‘breadwinners’?