Results of a new survey conducted By GLS Consulting were released today indicating that the experiences of business women in technology organizations and professions, provide valuable signposts for how emerging tech businesses can best transform the social contract between organizations and people to maximize their competitive edge and retain exemplary employees. They are passionate about the exhilaration of having an impact at work, the rapid professional growth, working in a dynamic, collaborative work environment, and having the flexibility and freedom to be creative and perhaps transform the world through technology. 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.