Careers and progression
I've been doing a few interviews for the putative PP book, and they've prompted some thoughts about how different kinds of organisation do or don't foster careers and progression. In particular, is working in a large bureaucracy more likely to help or to hinder a woman making her way up, at whatever level? I caught some of Lucy Kellaway's radio series, broadcast last year, on A History of Office Life. One episode dealt with the invention of the career ladder (it's from that that I pinched the Dickensian illustration below), another with nepotism vs meritocracy. A third covered the arrival of women in the office. She slily sketches in the way office…
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