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Tuesday, May 30, 2006
The Gray Ceiling
Source: Babson Women's Business Blog
Jan Shubert, Assoc. Director of the Babson College Center for Women’s Leadership, blogs that the Glass Ceiling is being replaced by a Gray Ceiling made of Baby Boomers. Half of the 76 million Boomers in America are women and three out of four are currently in the workforce. Retirement? The farthest thing from their minds. So the 44 million Gen X'ers and 80 million Millenials (almost 70% of whom are women and minorities), will be waiting them out. Shubert says the boomers "passionate take-no-prisoners approach to work" is the model the next generation is rejecting. So Boomers! You may have paved the way, but the next generation has seen the enemy (er...ceiling) and it is you.
