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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By generational social change, are you talking about the upcoming generation where men and women dont interact at all?[/quote]

PP.  I feel that the men I work with are not intentionally sexist.  And I think they do expect/believe that women can be managers and executives.

However, there are lots of signs of stereotyping such as:

-Women getting assigned emotional labor tasks

-Women getting disproportionately assigned detail-oriented gruntwork that is a career killer because they are good at it

-Work social events involve alcohol and sports

-Comments on executive presence issues that are clearly gendered

-People promote their friends and I think some men are skittish about really being friends with women at work because of gender issues.  I always say one of my biggest career issues is the departments I started my career in.  They were not the places where the cool people clustered.

Things that I think are helping include women starting to disproportionately attend college and more egalitarian views among young men.

Something that HR research shows really helps is paternity leave.  I have seen this in real time.  My  F500 company now offers 3 months of paternity leave either all at once or on demand for a year or so.  According to research, this works by handicapping the careers of the young go-getter men.  Because their male bosses are grumpy that they will be gone for long blocks of time.  Really this is a win for everybody except the old school managers - young moms, young dads, babies, employee retention. That's an example of what I mean by generational change.  A lot of people have 2 kids in 4 years so being gone for 6 months is pretty noticeable.  When moms and dads both do it, the career penalties/prejudices are equalized.  Go Gen-Z! [/quote]

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