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We now have all the technology we need to free employees to work more flexibly. But instead of using it to retain and liberate talent, we’re using it to send the talent screaming out of the door.

The success of women-owned businesses is cause for rejoicing. It benefits the economy and it benefits women. It even benefits men, who are more likely to be hired by women than women are by men, according to the Center for Women’s Business Research. But I’m not sure our large corporations can rejoice.

Sure, every time a woman resigns, it’s easy to imagine she’s going home, baking cookies and retiring from the field. It’s far more challenging--and a lot more realistic--to think she's leaving to find richer challenges, take on more risk and test the full range of her talents. That makes her just the kind of person companies should never want to lose.

As the economy heats up, it’s sobering to think that the real competition for talent isn’t other firms--it's the business and ideas incubating inside women’s minds.

Girls dominate CAPT scores: Waterbury boys are outscored in every subject

BY RANDY JAMES

Republican-American

September 3, 2006

WATERBURY -- Girls are moving to the head of the class in city high schools.

New test results show girls outscoring boys in every subject, stretching the gender gap to its widest point in at least six years. Girls continued their traditional dominance in reading and writing and outperformed boys in science and math last year for the first time.