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Is Work Flexibility the Final Frontier for Women Execs?

Inflexible work schedules and corporate cultures that honor long hours in the office keep many promising executives with family obligations out of top jobs. But a few companies are bucking that trend.

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Fri Sep 07 2012

Is Work Flexibility the Final Frontier for Women Execs?
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Anne-Marie Slaughter, who left a power position at the U.S. State Department in January 2011 to return to a professor's role at Princeton University so she could be more readily available for her troubled teenage son, charged in a widely read article in The Atlantic that employers' support for balancing work and family is the real impediment to women accepting and keeping executive jobs.

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