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...Margaret Hennig and Anne Jardim, co-directors of the Simmons College graduate program in management, believe women's attitudes toward work are so different from men's that it is not surprising so few have risen to the top in many fields. Women, they have found, often view a job as something to be done competently and carefully. Indeed, women not uncommonly are such perfectionists that they get bogged down in detail. Females have been (or at least used to be) shaped by society to have no broad perspective of career, whereas men go after long-range goals...
...point, perhaps to middle-management levels, this tactic may prove effective. But to reach the highest levels of business, a woman must clearly and comfortably accept the fact that she is a woman, according to two alumnae of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration: Margaret Hennig, 33, and Anne Jardim, 37. They are so convinced that women must take their own route to the executive suite that they have set up at Simmons College in Boston the nation's first graduate program in management at a woman's school. Beginning next September, they will train some...
Vicious Circle. The shortage of women managers is only partly due to discrimination, Hennig and Jardim believe. On the basis of their experience as consultants to such corporations as New England Bell Telephone & Telegraph and the Columbia Broadcasting System, they have discovered that women are held back partly by their own passivity, partly by a vicious circle of misunderstandings. Men tend to assume that women are more interested in marriage or their children than in careers. Women, on the other hand, assume that they will be tolerated only if they are superefficient. So they become experts at one particular...
Moreover, even if they feel they could easily take on more responsibilities, women tend not to demand them, as men often do, but hope to be invited to accept them. Using a dancing school analogy, Hennig notes that women in business management "are all dolled up against the wall, waiting to be chosen...
...president, for example, served as acting president for several months, yet was not considered permanently for the job simply because of her sex. She also suspected that her salary was lower than that paid to male vice presidents. Bitterly, she accepted these inequities for years till she consulted with Hennig and Jardim. They told her to add up her assets and make a case for herself. "That was a blinding insight to her," notes Jardim. "My God," responded her boss when the woman finally mustered the courage to show him that she was managing some $25 million in loans, whereas...