The non-hierarchical management structure, the collaboration, the flexibility, the reduced gender issues help women achieve more rapidly. Women pay a high price. The exhilaration and the exhaustion. Personal, family, community time and romantic life are greatly affected. However diminished, the gender issues of feeling devalued, invisible, and having difficulty raising money still exist.
Women love the exhilaration, but have paid a heavy price .
They have traded off balance to the powerful impact and rapid growth. Women are the canary in the coal mine warning us that the informal social contract that has developed in the new economy is destructive for employees, both men and women, and organizations in the long term. The social contract is full of promise and potential for employees to rapidly grow, to accumulate wealth. In practice, that may already be showing diminishing returns. What has not changed, is the normative requirement for employees to sacrifice their non-work life to meet the faster, better, more required to remain globally competitive.