Top Women Do Quit, Yes, but for Better Jobs Elsewhere - Building Gender Balanced Business

• The turnover rate for top executive women in the US is 33%, vs 19% for men, with even higher rates in law, marketing, research and development, and operations.

• But few of these women are quitting just (or even) to take care of children or elderly parents or because they have hit an unbreakable glass ceiling industry-wide. No, Xavier University business Professor Hema Krishnan found that many of them are jumping to different organisations and often moving into higher, even CEO, spots.

• “Many women started their own companies, the professor told Enquirer magazine, SiliconIndia reports. “Their family was the reason they left the workforce, but they did not wanted to just be with the families. They used the opportunities and flexibility to start their own organizations.”

• She added that she believed higher education was also critical in the women’s moves. The women who moved up found the time to get advanced degrees to help themselves move higher in a different organisation.

The SiliconIndia article