The media and workplaces alike are buzzing after comments recently made by former CEO of General Electric Co. Jack Welch."There's no such thing as work-life balance," Welch told the Society for Human Resource Management's conference in New Orleans on June 28. "There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences."
Welch went onto say that women who take time off for family could be passed over for promotions if they are “not there in the clutch.”
As reported in an ABA Journal article,
Welch said women who take time off can still "have a nice career," but their chances of reaching the top are smaller. "We'd love to have more women moving up faster," he said. "But they've got to make the tough choices and know the consequences of each one."
An Am Law Daily article offers some thoughts on whether this is true for law firms. But even if we limit these statements to only apply to Fortune 500 companies, are we still going to continue to make women the only ones who have to make tough choices, and feel the consequences?
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I guess his three divorces were the consequences of his tough choices.
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