Gender balance: a future beneficial for both sexes - Building Gender Balanced Business

The Dominance of Men is coming to an end

• For the first time in American history, women constituted the majority of payroll employees during the five months preceding March.

• “The postindustrial economy is indifferent to men’s size and strength. The attributes that are most valuable today- social intelligence, open communication, the ability to sit still and focus- are, at a minimum, not predominantly male. In fact the opposite may be true.” Hanna Rosin author of “The End of Men”

• 64% of members of the National Honor Society, high school students who excel, are girls.

• 51% of professional and managerial positions in the US are filled by women.

• Granted, men still have a stranglehold on the most elite positions but at the same time, they constitute 90% of American prisoners and a disproportionate percentage of homeless people.

The Dominance of Women isn’t about to start

• The progress made by women is still in an effort to catch up with men. In all likelihood, it will be much more difficult to continue surging once a situation of parity is reached.

• Over 40 years of work, a man earns, on average, $431,000 more than a woman.

• During the summer, men reclaimed a slim majority of payroll jobs due to the arrival of numerous summer jobs like construction work.

• 62% of kids who earn a perfect score on the S.A.T are boys, a very similar number to that of girls in the National Honor Society.

Is gender balance inevitable?

• The disparity in scholastic performance between boys and girls is real but modest and it may just be due to how schools teach to children.

• Men and women alike strive (or at least support) gender balance, not for anyone’s superiority.

• So in the words of Henry Kissinger, “Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.”

The New York Times