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High-Powered Jobs Don't Come
Without Consequences
Teena Rose operates a
prominent and
professional resume writing service, Resume to Referral. She’s authored
several books, including "20-Minute
Cover Letter Fixer"
"How
to Design, Write, and Compile a Quality Brag Book"
and "Cracking
the Code to Pharmaceutical Sales."
CBS News is the dawn of a new era at the
network and for television news as a whole. The move also shines the spotlight
on the issue of women and their role in high-powered jobs. Beginning this fall,
Couric will become the first woman to lead a network evening newscast alone when
she begins her five-year deal as anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening
News.” The third-place CBS hopes Couric’s celebrity can boost its sagging
ratings and restore credibility to a network damaged by recent reporting
missteps.
The simple fact that Couric’s move has been
treated as a major news story is evidence of the progress women have made in the
working world, and the lengths they still have to go. The idea of a woman as the
lead anchor going solo on the evening news would have been unheard of 30 years
ago. Already quite familiar with a high-powered job, Couric will break down
another workplace barrier in her new position.
Like many women, it’s likely Couric is
familiar with the triumphs and struggles that many women with high-end positions
face in the corporate world. Naturally, the overwhelming majority of women can’t
relate to Couric’s celebrity or $15 million annual salary, but they are quite
familiar with the mixed blessings that come with being a highly successful
woman. On one hand, these positions have come with a status and self-fulfillment
that have resulted in economic power and the removal of boundaries. On the other
hand, high-powered women continue to be labeled as missing something in their
lives and having a direct impact on traditional roles like child-bearing.
In a recent and controversial article by Alison Wolf, the Kings College
of London academic writes that highly successful women have created enormous
benefits for society, but have also contributed to “the death of sisterhood, a
decline in female altruism and growing disincentives to bear children.”
In developed countries, Wolf believes that
women now have the ability to take virtually any career path and the end result
has created and will continue to create a fracture in society. Wolf doesn’t
argue that it’s the wrong path for women to take, just a direction that will
result in consequences, both good and bad.
“Women used to enter the elite as
daughters, mothers and wives. Now they do so as individuals,” Wolf writes in the
April issue of Prospect Magazine. “Three
consequences get far less attention than they deserve. The first is the death of
sisterhood: an end to the millennia during which women of all classes shared the
same major life experiences to a far greater degree than did their men. The
second is the erosion of ‘female altruism,’ the service ethos which has been
profoundly important to modern industrial societies – particularly in the
education of their young, and the care of their old and sick. The third is the
impact of employment change on childbearing. We are familiar with the prospect
of demographic decline, yet we ignore, sometimes willfully, the extent to which
educated women face disincentives to bear children.”
Wolf’s views,
of course, have been subject to criticism. Many women believe that life in the
high-powered fast lane can result in positive opportunities that other women may
not be able to access. Many high-profile mothers with six-figure incomes have
perks like on-site daycare for children. They also have the benefits of
housekeepers, accommodating spouses and other support systems. In an age where
even the two-income family is struggling just to make ends meet, the woman with
the high-end job will be able to give her children and family the advantages and
professional awards they otherwise wouldn’t have.
The
woman with the elite job faces enormous challenges every day. And if she has a
family, then the life is even more complex. In spite of recent trend stories the
past few years that highlighted women opting out of high-powered jobs to raise
children and return home, the Center for Economic Policy has squashed that
theory, stating that the number of women in the labor market has remained steady
over the past few years, according to a March report in the San Francisco
Chronicle. In fact, most high-powered women, whether they’re married, have
children or are single, say the emotional charge and rewards from their jobs
make them better spouses, girlfriends, parents and people. 
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