The education system fails to provide adequate numbers of skilled workers and fails to educate whole groups within society. Nowhere is the inadequacy of U.S. business' response to the problem it faces more obvious than in its unwillingness to tap the potential of the thousands of talented women who are ready and eminently qualified to step into leadership positions. Approximately 80 percent of the CEOs interviewed for a 1990 study on women in corporate management acknowledged being aware of the barriers to women's advancement. Most of these CEOs perceived women as equally or better prepared than male counterparts in terms of education, technical training, management skills and interpersonal skills. But women were thought not to be equal to men in career commitment.
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She redistributes the work among her colleagues, she stays in touch by phone, fax and modem. Very much the same as when a male CEO has a heart attack, breaks his leg skiing, or has an automobile accident, and is out of the office for a period of time. It is time for companies to acknowledge the primacy of family in the value systems of both men and women. Too many women still have to choose between career and family. And too often men sacrifice participation in the lives of their families to meet the demands of their jobs.