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Are there real gender differences
in leadership traits?
What are the real root causes
of the glass ceiling?
How have some women made it to the top?
INSTANT GUEST AUTHOR: Nancy E. Parsons, author of Fresh Insights to END the Glass Ceiling. Parsons is President of CDR Assessment Group, Inc. a firm that provides break-through assessments and services for leadership and talent development.
Parsons’ research-based book, Fresh Insights to END the Glass Ceiling, reveals the true reasons why the glass ceiling exists and it is not what most people think. That is why today’s solutions are not working. Equipped with the new insights in this book, we can at last make the glass ceiling a thing of the past.
Most companies have positive intent and are making significant investments in initiatives to accelerate promotional opportunities for women. Yet, progress has stalled. Even though it has been nearly four decades since the Pregnancy Act of 1978 went into effect, only 5.8% of CEOs of Fortune 500s are women and only about 14% serve as corporate executives. Meanwhile, nearly 60% of today’s college graduates are women. These numbers simply do not add up. Parsons explains in this new book that if we stay on the current trajectory, it will take over 400 years for women to attain just 50% of the CEO positions of Fortune 500s. Clearly, this is not acceptable.
From a bottom line perspective, a study conducted by the Peterson Institute for Global Economics of 22,000 organizations found that companies that had at least 30% of senior leaders as women had 15% increased profitability. So, the need to bring the glass ceiling down swiftly is more than a gender issue, it is a bottom line business success issue.
PLUG BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/Fresh-Insights-END-Glass-Ceiling/dp/0692855742/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1503600040&sr=8-3&keywords=Nancy+E+Parsons
BIO: Nancy Parsons is an expert in leadership development, talent management, human resources, and assessments. She is the CEO/President of CDR Assessment Group, Inc. (CDR) that she co-founded with Kimberly (Brinkmeyer) Leveridge, Ph.D. In 1998, together they developed the break-through CDR 3-Dimensional Assessment Suite® an ideal coaching tool which has been translated to five languages for global clients. The CDR 3-D Suite measures: leadership character traits, inherent risk factors for derailment, and drivers and rewards.
WEBSITE: cdrassessmentgroup.com
TWITTER: @NancyParsons