A Women in the Workplace study by Lean In says that women aren’t expected to reach equality with men for about another 100 years. Let that sink in: A hundred years.
That’s pretty disheartening for someone like me who remembers the Feminist movement starting some 50 years ago with Gloria Steinem’s stinging advocacy and Virginia Slims ads touting “You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby.” Surely that 100-year prediction can’t be true? We have Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Mary Barra, Meg Whitman, Tory Burch, Oprah and Sheryl Sandberg, don’t we?
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