Survey: More professional women choosing time over money

Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2011-10-31 20:42

Article here. Excerpt:

'A new nationwide survey shows that Willis, 44, may not be alone. A women and workplace survey from More magazine shows that 43% of the women surveyed say they are less ambitious now than they were a decade ago. And only a quarter of the 500 women ages 35 to 60 say they're working toward their next promotion.

And forget about the corner office: 3 out of 4 women in the survey — 73% — say they would not apply for their boss' job. Almost 2 of 5 — 38% — report they don't want to put up with the stress, office politics and responsibility that often go hand in hand with such positions.
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"We're bemoaning the lack of women in top Fortune 500 companies or women in political office," Seymour says. "We're sliding backwards, and here's your answer. It's because we have thrown ice water all over ambition."
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Polling Company Inc./Woman Trend surveyed women who had at least a college degree, were employed in a professional position and had at least a $60,000 annual income if single and $75,000 if married.

Two of 3 of women reported they would prefer to have more free time than a bigger paycheck, and 2 of 5 said they would be willing to accept less money for more flexibility.'

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A feminist woman I know complained to me that only 17% of the US Congress members were women "after all these years!" [what she meant by that comment was "after all the propaganda and publicity that the feminist establishment has gotten over the last few decades"]. I then suggested that maybe women didn't want those jobs. This was like a short-circuit to her brain. It did not compute. She claimed that because there weren't at least 50% women these high-stress jobs, then surely this must be the result of discrimination. I then went on to suggest that if women really wanted women in office, they would have voted them into office, because after all over 50% of the voting public is female. I started to say something about women not wanting to run for office,* but she abruptly stopped the conversation. This was too much for her, and in the blink of an eye she departed, making up some lame excuse, when I knew damn well we were both on a long lunch break at a conference, and that she didn't have to be anywhere right then. The truth was, she didn't want to look at the fact that low participation rates in these high stress jobs is not a result of discrimination, it is a result of women's choices.

* See a Brookings report which shows that women have considerably lower political aspirations than men:

http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2008/05_women_lawless_fox.aspx

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Submitted by redwoodwriter on Tue, 2011-11-01 02:12

Feminists have been bemoaning this for years, but ultimately the choices that women make mean there are fewer women in the top jobs. Trying to crowbar women into jobs they don't want to do is feminism's way of achieving 'equality', yet if women have been told it's their choice what to do with their life and career why does feminism think it should know better?

Men and women should be free to live their lives and make the choices that work for them. Feminists should learn to respect that.

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Submitted by sirprince on Tue, 2011-11-01 16:48