Did you think the glass ceiling was a relic of the past? Not so much.
Even if there weren't plenty of statistics to demonstrate continued gender bias in the workplace, the marketplace, and in financing for start-ups, a depressing stories out of Silicon Valley makes it brutally clear just how far we haven't come.
Unfortunately, according to Wendy Capland, CEO of Vision Quest Consulting and author of the bestseller "Your Next Bold Move for Women," there's a lot women do ourselves to make matters worse.
"It's not that I don't think there's a glass ceiling," Capland explains. "More women now graduate from college than men, and women are the breadwinners in almost 50% of American households. But only 22% of executives in Corporate America are women, so that number is pitiful."
But, Capland says, her work coaching executive women has given her a different perspective. Her company has trained thousands of women leaders, both Fortune 500 executives and small business owners. And from what she's observed, women business leaders often fail to put ourselves on the same footing as men. Thus, she says, we suffer not only from the glass ceiling, but also from what some call "sticky-floor syndrome."
