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“Optioning In versus ‘Opting Out’: Women Using Flexible Work Arrangements for Career Success”

Filed under On the Job, Salary and Benefits, Women and Careers
Posted by Libraries, February 02, 2007
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By Mary Shapiro, Cynthia Ingols and Stacy Blake-Beard, CGO Insights, January 2007

http://www.simmons.edu/som/docs/centers/insights_25.pdf

A new study by faculty at Simmons School of Management’s Center for Gender in Organizations reveals that more women are using flexible work options to remain in the workplace. The study refutes both the claims of an earlier study and the hype in the popular press about women “opting out” of leadership and abandoning their careers. The study finds that the great majority of women are not “opting out.” Instead, women are using flexible work options to remain in the work place while managing complex lives. The study discusses the benefit of flexible work arrangements (FWAs) for both the employee and the employer, focusing on women but presented as a solution, regardless of gender, to an outdated career model that was created for and by the white male managers who built the corporate structures after World War II.

—Michael Spelman