A whole lot has changed in the workplace in a very short time. When an earlier generation of women marched to work 25 or 30 years ago, they found their best strategy lay in pretending their home lives didn't exist and in covering up their sexuality. Their daughters are joining a very different work world. There are plenty of talented, able women around. Young people work around the clock and have little interest in erecting barriers between their social and work lives.
Women are far more relaxed.
They are wearing tank tops to interviews and Capri pants around the office. They are also less inhibited about using the personal tools at their disposal to get ahead professionally. This, of course, is something competent businessmen have always done. For example, attractive and athletic men have long drawn on their business skills, but also ontheir charm and golf game to help them get to the top. The difference now is that young women feel more comfortable doing the same thing.