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The real reason women are not equally represented at the top in business and government is because they don’t want to be. Most women are multifaceted human beings who don’t want their lives to be consumed by their professions. Women want balanced lives that allow them to pursue other interests and desires – not the least of which is motherhood.
This is true across the board, even in Scandinavian countries where feminists think women have it so much better. In Norway, two-thirds of wives earn far less than their spouse – mainly because they work part-time. The same holds true here in America.
I realize facts like these are upsetting to feminists who are anxious for women’s attainment of top jobs. But pushing women into high-powered jobs does not improve gender equality, as Dr. Catherine Hakim notes in her new report entitled “Feminist Myths and Magic Medicine.”
‘Swedish social engineering has failed completely to establish gender equality in the labour force,’ she writes.
Only the propaganda, she adds, has been successful.
The McKinsey report is a great example of such propaganda. It claims women in middle management “are doubly handicapped” because 62% occupy staff jobs “that rarely lead to a CEO role.” It doesn’t occur to the folks at McKinsey that these women specifically choose staff jobs because they allow women to leave their work at the office and focus their attention elsewhere. As any CEO can attest, their work is never done. That is not enticing to most women.
As if the perpetuation of feminist myths wasn’t bad enough, Americans must also contend with the undercurrent of elitism. High-achieving, career-oriented women who tout the feminist agenda assume everyone has the same goal they do: to reach the pinnacle in the marketplace. Unfortunately for feminists, but fortunately for our nation’s children and for businesses that depend on middle management, that isn’t the case.
Suzanne Venker is co-author of the new book The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know – and Men Can’t Say.
