“The share of women in heterosexual marriages who make as much or more than their husbands has nearly tripled over the past five decades, according to the Pew Research Center,” The Washington Post notes this week. Another report from last year found that women now comprise almost half of managers in the United States, an increase of more than 50 percent from 1980, and one that is occurring across a host of professional categories. And, as was reported last month, women accounted for almost all new job hires in August.
Feminists laud this as an unqualified victory in the march toward equality in all things. But is it good for work? What we know about female leadership, and my own experiences as a manager, would suggest perhaps not so much.
