Comments on: Who’s Joined The Rat Race Now? http://www.thejobbored.com/whos-joined-the-rat-race-now_315/ Getting Things Done, Getting Ahead, Getting Through The Day Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rick http://www.thejobbored.com/whos-joined-the-rat-race-now_315/#comment-280 Rick Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:34:14 +0000 http://www.thejobbored.com/whos-joined-the-rat-race-now_315/#comment-280 Many of today's 20-somethings were told throughout childhood that they could be anything they wanted to be if they put their minds to it and worked hard. And, unlike previous generations, there was no gender bias in that message. I'm a Boomer dad whose teenage daughter will enter college later this year. She has a career plan in mind and is focused; my wife and I gave her that same message. It's a welcome change from the message many of the women of my generation heard about 40 years ago: You are meant to raise a family and maintain a home. Today's 20-something woman is just as competitive, if not more so, as a man. I can see a greater intensity among them in high school athletics that may well transfer into the working world, and that may carry over to those who don't play sports. Bottom line: The study you cite doesn't surprise me at all. It's a different world than the one I lived in during the '60s and '70s. Whatever you want in life, whether you're a man or woman, just go for it. Many of today’s 20-somethings were told throughout childhood that they could be anything they wanted to be if they put their minds to it and worked hard. And, unlike previous generations, there was no gender bias in that message. I’m a Boomer dad whose teenage daughter will enter college later this year. She has a career plan in mind and is focused; my wife and I gave her that same message. It’s a welcome change from the message many of the women of my generation heard about 40 years ago: You are meant to raise a family and maintain a home.

Today’s 20-something woman is just as competitive, if not more so, as a man. I can see a greater intensity among them in high school athletics that may well transfer into the working world, and that may carry over to those who don’t play sports. Bottom line: The study you cite doesn’t surprise me at all. It’s a different world than the one I lived in during the ’60s and ’70s. Whatever you want in life, whether you’re a man or woman, just go for it.

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