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...study, conducted by the Center for Work-Life Policy and sponsored by Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, and Ernst & Young, surveyed 2,443 women and 653 men in four sectors: law, medicine, finance, and academia. The study has been in progress since early last year...
...study has produced numbers that the authors say relate interestingly to University President Lawrence H. Summers’ stated opinion that discrimination is a lesser factor in explaining the underrepresentation of women in higher education. The study shows that women in academia are less likely to leave their careers for reasons relating to child care than their counterparts in different occupations...
...study found that 45 percent of women overall leave to spend time with their children, but only 21 percent of women in academia cite this as one of their own reasons for leaving...
...fact, 36 percent of women in academia say their careers are not satisfying or enjoyable, compared to only 29 percent of women overall...
...Kelley's outlook on business so different? To hear him tell it, being around academia--Kelley got tenure to teach product design part time at Stanford's engineering school in 1990--gives him the necessary distance and perspective. "If you always stay at a company, this barbaric businessness overtakes you," he says. "You're always in execution mode. Here [at Stanford] you get to think more strategically about your profession." Or, as he tells his students, "enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of flawed intellects...