On International Women\u2019s Day in 2018 I presented a research paper about how consulting firms can retain women in what we termed the \u201cpinched middle\u201d*. A common dropout point occurs when women hit the manager to senior manager grade. Often, these women are in their late 20s and early 30s, and just as they\u2019re expected to be at full-throttle with their career, they\u2019re also becoming busier at home. It\u2019s the point at which many reflect on the kind of life they want, the trade-offs they\u2019re willing to make, and what it takes to be successful in consulting. Unfortunately for consulting firms, an awful lot of women decide it\u2019s either not doable or not worth it, so they leave the industry altogether. <\/p>\n
At the time of writing, I was in my late 20s. While I was a woman working in consulting, I wasn\u2019t fully in the \u201cpinched middle\u201d myself. This International Women\u2019s Day, I very much am, and it\u2019s caused me to reflect on the recommendations I suggested. Now, as a working mother in consulting, do I still think what I said is relevant? And what, in my lack of personal experience, did I miss? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14843,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969\/revisions\/14843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sourceglobalresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}