Yesterday we highlighted Sheryl Sandberg’s feminist niche–creating women leaders to change the workplace. In reaction to the media blitz for her book, another point of view was heard from Wall Street Journal columnist and business entrepreneur, Jody Greenstone Miller, President of her own Business Talent Group. She believes that women need more of the right kind of time management–flexibility, predictability and control in the workplace.
She is also right. But her pointed dismissal of Sandberg’s “misdiagnosis of the problem” as stated in the opening paragraphs of her opinion piece is an unfortunate beginning if she wants to advance her legitimate agenda.
She posits that the real woman’s issue is time. She states this without doubt, with no room for other opinions. Miller appropriately hammers the rigidity of the workplace and sees flexibility as the panacea for what women want and need. She points out that the way work gets done in American corporations (or hospitals, law firms, assembly lines?) can be re-engineered, project by project to adapt to the way women want to work. Read More