
Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better

A movement that will get you the work life you really want.
Katherine Kay • Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better
Our right-brain multitasking and problem-solving skills help us make good corporate decisions.
Katherine Kay • Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better
It’s just one indication of how women’s natural social skills translate well in the business environment.
Katherine Kay • Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better
assets—Pepperdine’s study found that companies with the best records for promoting women outperform the competition.
Katherine Kay • Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better
most women clearly don’t aspire to make that straight climb to the summit anymore.
Katherine Kay • Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better
“These workers demand more flexibility, meaningful jobs, professional freedom, higher rewards and a better work-life balance than older employees do. Companies face a rate of high attrition if their expectations aren’t met.”
Katherine Kay • Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better
instead of feeling an obligation to do more and more, we need to turn that driving emotion toward feeling pride for what we’ve already done.
Katherine Kay • Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better
The total cost of replacing a senior manager can be three times that person’s salary.21 According to some estimates, the cost of turnover for knowledge-based companies is even higher—a whopping 500 percent—and those are just the kinds of companies in which professional women tend to work.22
Katherine Kay • Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better
They finally understand we’re not looking for a better company cafeteria, a free dinner after working late,