However, the presence of women in leadership roles and key decision-making is relatively recent. In the past, the "soft skills", often associated with women, such as teamwork, creativity, communication and diplomacy tends to be underestimated in the business world. The so-called "hard skills" such as the capabilities of the technology, processes and procedures based on, is considered essential to the head of an organization, and more associated with male staff.
Over time, focus on the business has changed. It is no longer sees its products, machinery and real estate to be the only assets. He acknowledged that good employees and satisfied are also valuable assets for a business. But to develop good employees, you must have strong soft skills. Therefore, the need for individuals with skills in both hard and soft opened the door for women to be valued in leadership positions.
Today, women represented 58% of graduates, and in June 2009, women held 49.83% of the nation's 132 million people, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. As corporate cultures continue to evolve, which are critical to the needs of these workers. These organizations, which are most successful.
Recently there was an article in Business Week that evaluated the performance of companies on the basis of the companies actively develop women in leadership roles. Companies that succeed in developing their employees have consistently outperformed the rest of the market by many standards.
Moving into the new decade, there will be more opportunities and more for women who have never been present before. More women are starting businesses than men, women have higher degrees of education than men, and the majority of graduates are now women. It opens the door to an exciting and dynamic changes in the labor market for young generations graduated
