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How to deal with the old boys’ club Bay Street work environment?

“In a typical “old [white] boys’ club” Bay St. work environment, what advice do you have for young, visible-minority women who want to be upwardly-mobile but who are always excluded from informally socializing with these men?   If I read this question correctly, I believe it is all young women, not just visible-minority women, who would be excluded from informally socializing with this group. In my experience, those young women who get noticed by the "old boys’ club boys" are the "outliers" - the young woman that pulls an all-nighter at the office to complete that special project against all odds. The young woman who has to be called in by her boss because "she is working too hard". Those young women build a brand within the ...

What’s the real story on the glass ceiling?

In August 2011, The Conference Board of Canada issued a press release which included the following statements:   "The presence of Canadian women in senior management positions has stalled in the past two decades. Between 1987 and 2009, the proportion of women in senior management has changed little—men are still more than twice as likely to hold a senior executive position, according to a Conference Board report released today.   'Women have made great progress in many areas of society over the past 22 years, but not in the ranks of senior management positions. Now that the rousing early days of feminism are behind us, perhaps we have become complacent about the success of women in senior ...