The futures of women

"The "official future" says that women are moving toward equality with men. If not in our lifetime, we say, then in our children's. Think again." "If the rate of change during the last twenty years holds, it would be 2270 before women and men were equally likely to be top managers of major corporations." "In The Futures of Women, Pamela McCorduck and Nancy Ramsey explore four dramatically different alternatives for the coming years. Using a powerful new way of understanding trends - scenario planning - the authors paint these vivid landscapes: "Backlash," "A Golden Age of Equality," "Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back," and "Separate - and Doing Fine, Thanks." Each scenario has its own inner logic, firmly grounded in today's events, today's demographic and social trends, and in tomorrow's technological promises, but each one derives from a different combination of the political, social, and economic conditions that could prevail over the next twenty years.^ The authors' report from the recent UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing further supports their scenarios." "The book began as a project for the Global Business Network, a unique consulting firm whose scenario planning