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4 Phases of Women's Careers
This phase isn’t limited to the 50s. With longevity, it stretches ever longer. The women in visible leadership roles around the world are more often over 60 than under it.
Barbara Beck: a role model, worked full time running The Economist magazine’s Special Reports section into her late 70s.
Scilla Elworthy: at 76, continues a half-century’s work in conict resolution and peace-making.
Germaine Warkentin: my oldest friend’s mother and Emeritus Professor at the University of Toronto, after contributing or co-authoring 17 books, is writing her rst solo book, at 86, on the history of the book as an information medium.
With them in mind, I’m gearing up for another two or three decades. Who knew? And that’s one of the challenges. We mostly aren’t aware of the shape of women’s careers. And because their shape is unrecognised and unacknowledged, we’re too often found wanting and under-performing in our rst halves – even by ourselves.
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