.. And I wrote a little about my observations.
But first, what makes the findings of the Westpac Report especially interesting is that this survey only looks at professional women and men with a minimum yearly income of $85, 000. In other words, these are Sheryl Sandberg’s women ‘leaning in’ and the men in the survey are those to whom they are leaning towards in the name of power and influence in the business world. Together, their attitudes are important signals about changing values in the corporate and managerial landscape when it comes to combining work and family.
Awesome article. Ay, the comments.
A minor quibble. There’s a significant difference between “the proportion of men giving answer X rather than Y is 20 percentage points higher than the proportion of women” and “men say X, women say Y”. In these circumstances, you really need access to the individual record data to back up conclusions like “men whose career wasn’t affected by children tend to think of childcare as a private problem”. Still, it’s a pretty plausible inference.
Fair point.