Over the years I have noticed something and it's picking up steam.
I talk to my make friends and they tell me how hard it is to find a senior level job in the line of work that we are in. But then I look at 4 of my female former-classmates who are in the same city and in the same line of work and they are all VPs. One is now C-level. None of us guys are C-level or even VPs. It's hard to even get to Director.
The other one is of college admissions. My son is a senior in high school and he has good grades and all that and we are hoping that he gets into one of the top Engineering schools. You know, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, CMU etc. We know some folks whose kids have gotten in, including my cousin's kid who got into Stanford last year. A neighbor's kid got into CMU. Another neighbor's kid got into Berkeley but ended up going to UCLA. Then another kid got into Harvard. Amazing, huh? Then I woke up to the realization that all of them were girls. There was just 1 boy who is a friend's friend's kid who got into Harvard. I asked my cousin what got his daughter into Stanford and he waffled, said he wasn't sure. I googled, could not find her name in anything as a big achievement.
I look at Linkedin and see many women get promoted every 1-2 years. A few profiles I have seen started work in 2012 and are already VPs.
What is going on?
Are women just smarter than men and with opportunity now, are outshining men?
Are boys gets dumber by the year?
Is this part of a larger movement to sideline males and prop up females everywhere?
I talk to my make friends and they tell me how hard it is to find a senior level job in the line of work that we are in. But then I look at 4 of my female former-classmates who are in the same city and in the same line of work and they are all VPs. One is now C-level. None of us guys are C-level or even VPs. It's hard to even get to Director.
The other one is of college admissions. My son is a senior in high school and he has good grades and all that and we are hoping that he gets into one of the top Engineering schools. You know, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, CMU etc. We know some folks whose kids have gotten in, including my cousin's kid who got into Stanford last year. A neighbor's kid got into CMU. Another neighbor's kid got into Berkeley but ended up going to UCLA. Then another kid got into Harvard. Amazing, huh? Then I woke up to the realization that all of them were girls. There was just 1 boy who is a friend's friend's kid who got into Harvard. I asked my cousin what got his daughter into Stanford and he waffled, said he wasn't sure. I googled, could not find her name in anything as a big achievement.
I look at Linkedin and see many women get promoted every 1-2 years. A few profiles I have seen started work in 2012 and are already VPs.
What is going on?
Are women just smarter than men and with opportunity now, are outshining men?
Are boys gets dumber by the year?
Is this part of a larger movement to sideline males and prop up females everywhere?
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