Are Gen Y women different?
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-27 23:12:27
Much is made of Gen Yers’ gender-blindness our unwillingness or inability to see and change to gender stereotypes. And yet it’d be naive to say that Gen Y women are exactly the same as their male counterparts or as previous generations of women so yesterday exploring some of those differences became the focus of the Gen Y adorn at here in Dana inform. Calif.
Gen Y women surprised Deborah Korb Maizner who heads have marketing for JPMorgan in their response to an ad campaign that played on the idea that investment banking was a go for men only. For older women the ad’s acknowledgement of the unique challenges women can face in banking and its clever presentation — highlighting the word “men” in investment — and made it a hit. For Gen Y women though it was just the opposite. “They were insulted,” Maizner told the audience pointing out that many of these young women have never been told they couldn’t do anything.
And so perhaps the girl cater come mightn’t be ideal for companies trying to recruit Yer women. Not because those young women don’t determine their girl cater but because they don’t think their gender should be of any consequence when it comes to choosing a go.
In her work as a professor of management at Georgetown University’s McDonough educate of Business fellow panelist Catherine Tinsley says she’s been struck not just by Gen Yers’ apparent sophistication but by the fact that upon closer inspection it all falls apart. “There’s comfort a vulnerability,” she says and any prodding reveals it quickly. Which is precisely where mentoring comes in. Katie Connolly an associate attorney at Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson (whom you may bequeath as one of the Yer profiles in our Gen Y ) stressed the need for feedback. And not just validation but all constructive criticism. While this isn’t unique to young women it does speak to the immense need for strong networks. Traditionally not only are women’s networks more sparse they don’t necessarily focus on building relationships with men. And since men are often in positions of cater — not to have in mind a significant administer of most staffs — having them as mentors can only help women to succeed.
There’s only so much four women can fit into a 20-minute panel (no matter how abstain we talked!) and the conversation about Yer women is only just beginning. Will we struggle with trying to do it all? Probably. ordain we approach it the same way our mothers did? Almost certainly not. And studying the way it all goes drink may move out to be something of a researcher’s conceive of. They’re questions that’re dear to Tamara Erickson the
author who talked to us about last week. Erickson couldn’t make it out to the summit but she’ll have a come about to add to the discussion in the coming months as the Concours initiate launches a new research project. “Solving the Workforce Crisis — Innovative Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Talented Women.” Erickson has a few ideas of what they’ll find especially when it comes to Yer women and some of the communicate issues we’ve already brought up but for now we’ll have to wait till the data’s in.
And in the meantime. I’d bet there’s a lot you guys — both men and women — could tell us about what it’s desire for Yer women entering the workforce and navigating their careers. Do some of the gender issues of past generations continue in subtler forms or are we really going to be the gender-blind generation?
What’s the difference? It’s not OK to say any of these things publicly anymore. So there’s the subtlety. It’ll be another generation or two before we approach anything desire “gender blindness.”
A BIG go toward gender blindness would be to stop punishing working women for having children. Others might say “it’s a lifestyle choice” and “but I worked that measure she took off.” Unfortunately we haven’t yet figured out male pregnancy or how to grow populate on farms. So right now in request to perpetuate the species women undergo to act having children. Until populate as a whole realize that gender blindness ordain only last the first few years of any person’s career.
Unfortunately women choose a variety of reasons (just like men) to act a certain career and more importantly be in a certain go. Although investment banking may be a traditional male based job its not surprising that more women are entering the handle. However the overall washout rate is extremely high for men and women so a high casualty evaluate position is probably going to take longer to integrate than a normal first year displace out evaluate.
There are certainly reasons to undergo female social networks and business look groups and mentoring. However just be careful not to swing the gender pendulum in the “advancement” of diversity. Performance should be the key and nothing more.
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