Battle of the Sexes Redux

A new study by the Harvard Business Review of over 3,000 executives, about three-quarters of them women, puts gender differences in stark light. The survey suggests that highly qualified women are significantly less ambitious than their male counterparts and that women are much more likely to leave jobs for family reasons than men are.

"The bottom line is men and women are different," said Carolyn Buck Luce, a partner at Ernst & Young and a co-author of the report. In some areas, the study seems to confirm controversial statements made last month by Harvard President Lawrence Summers in which he hypothesized that women may lack "innate" abilities in some scientific disciplines. But the authors of the study say those comments don't track from their research. They contend that perceived shortcomings of women have more to do with the structure of the workplace than women themselves.

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Read more online: Boston Herald: http://tinyurl.com/bxerd