Robert Palmer once sang, persuasively and with brio, that “the women are smarter”. We’d add braver, and more motivated. It’s bracing to hear we may have new heroes and leaders. Just stay focused on merit. Some worry that the frightened U.S. male worker is steadily losing Moxie, Mojo, and the Ability to Think and Act on His Own. So this is good news. See at this week’s The Economist the cover piece “We did it!“:
At a time the world is short of causes for celebration, here is a candidate: within the next few months women will cross the 50% threshold and become the majority of the American workforce.
Women already make up the majority of university graduates in the OECD countries and the majority of professional workers in several rich countries, including the United States. Women run many of the world’s great companies, from PepsiCo in America to Areva in France.
Rosie the Riveter, now in her eighties, has arrived.
Image: The Economist (from J. Howard Miller’s WWII poster “We Can Do It!”)