Female Supremacy Articles - Page 17

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Professor Desirée Ladwig (40, two children) from Helmut-Schmidt University in Hamburg points out that women have especially good chances of promotion in companies where over 20% of managers are already female. Dorothee Ritz, director at Microsoft since August 2004, agrees. Her advice to young women is to “look for companies that support women, are open to the idea of equality and say so in their statutes.” According to the 36-year-old manager, executive positions are especially suitable for women with children. “Leading or managing is not the same thing as working,” she explains, “because managing is qualitative, not quantitative work. It depends on how the substructure is organized.”