It was called “Equal Opportunity for Women Is Smart Business” but it might just as easily have been called “Management Development for Women Is Just Management Development (but with women in it).” That, essentially, was the message behind M. Barbara Boyle’s 10-point affirmative action program for increasing the number of women in the workforce, published in HBR’s May-June issue of 1973.
You’ve Come a Medium-Length Way, Baby
The way we talk about women in the workplace has changed; but has the reality?
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