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Language matters: promoted women held back by 'negative narrative'
Women are taking three-times as long as men to reach senior leadership roles, but most current initiatives to change this are misdirected, according to "profound" new research.
Angela Coble, the chief technology officer of Accenture's products group, has spent the past three years conducting doctoral research into technology leadership career paths.
Her preliminary findings show that successful men and women in tech follow "the exact same career pathway", involving the same three stages: observational; management; and executive.
But women tend to take three decades to reach the top, while men take just one, she tells HR Daily...
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