Women Work-Force: Did you hear the glass shatter..

Hi All,

The rich world’s quiet revolution: women are gradually taking over the workplace. This article is in December issue of The Economist. Information in this article is very interesting and I had to share it with all. The article talks about aspects that women deal with when they set out to work and also decide to start a family. Despite the challenges can you hear the shatter.. Some informaion that caught my eye are given below.. you can read the article at:
http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15174489
Then to Now
Women’s economic empowerment is arguably the biggest social change of our times.
Just a generation ago, women were largely confined to repetitive, menial jobs. They were routinely subjected to casual sexism and were expected to abandon their careers when they married and had children
Now
In the European Union women have filled 6m of the 8m new jobs created since 2000. In America three out of four people thrown out of work since the “mancession” began have been male. And the shift towards women is likely to continue: by 2011 there will be 2.6m more female than male university students in America.
America could invest more in its children: it spends a lower share of its GDP on public child-care than almost any other rich country, and is the only rich country that refuses to provide mothers with paid maternity leave.