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Good news: the quest for work/life balance is beginning to not be just a women’s issue! I was reading a recent report “Unlocking the full potential of women in the U.S. economy” by McKinsey & Company and came scross their finding:

“Half of fathers with one child say they will not accept a new job that reduces work/life balance; 55% of women without children say the same thing.”

 This is good news and bad news. Good news because maybe now the idea of balance will become more mainstream and be addressed on a larger scale. If not, as the report calls out, corporations have much more to lose than just the mothers who work for them.

The bad news is that this takes one more difference between men and women off the table. This  used to be used to explain why women aren’t advancing in the workplace as fast as men. Unfortuantely, this excuse may no longer be valid. Where does it leave us with respect to leveling the playing field for women in business? This McKinsey report provides some ideas for the corporate world:

• Help by providing better informal networks and role models
• Reshape preconceived notions about what constitutes women’s work. Stop making decisions for other people about what job the can or would be willing to do.
• Examine and possibly help shift women’s own mindsets

Interestingly, these same recommendations work for getting more women into successful and high-growth entrepreneurial ventures. ACTiVATE is working on all that, which is why it…works!

Tags: Business, economy, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, McKinsey, Women, work-life balance

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 25th, 2011 at 9:27 pm and is filed under Work/Life Balance, business success secrets, default, path forward. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.