Working Assumptions
Meet the Queenagers: The New Category of Worker in Your Office That’s Long Been There
They got their start in the 1980s, paving the way for a new generation of women.
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In ongoing discussion over the progress women have made — and still need to make — in the work place, one key group is often overlooked. Meet the Queenagers, women in midlife who began their careers in the 1980s, the decade when the “glass ceiling” was first identified and when breaking through it became a possible if incredibly difficult-to-achieve goal for ambitious, corporate women.
Now, many of those senior female executives are leaving the workforce. In rejecting unsatisfactory jobs they also debunk the working assumption that one size fits all for every phase of a working woman's life.