Funny coincidence or dark conspiracy? Two studies on women’s rising ambitions landed on my desk recently. I felt buoyed by one, while the other made me want to puke.
First, the cheerier report, from Pew Research Center: “In a reversal of traditional gender roles, young women now surpass young men in the importance they place on having a high-paying career or profession.…Two-thirds (66 percent) of young women ages 18 to 34 rate career high on their list of life priorities, compared with 59 percent of young men. In 1997, 56 percent of young women and 58 percent of young men felt the same way.”
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