染雾美多数女性认为自己能兼顾工作和生活
Most young women believe they will achieve a balance between a rewarding career and a fulfilling personal life, despite the economic upheaval and a legacy of corporate culture that favors men, a survey shows.
The online survey of full-time working women between the ages of 22 and 35 years old revealed that they wanted a balance between their personal and professional lives and a job where they could make a difference.
Medical benefits were a crucial part of how they defined professional success, according to the survey commissioned by global management consulting and outsourcing firm Accenture, some 63 percent cited medical benefits as crucial to a professional success.
Accenture surveyed the 1,000 women because "we are always interested in attracting and retaining the best and the brightest," explained LaMae Allen deJongh, noting that globally the company employed 60,000 women.
Women are soon expected to make up half the U.S. workforce and the so-called millennials, those born after 1980, are now one-third of the working population.
DeJongh, managing director of US human capital and persity at the company, said the survey showed that "one-size is not going to fit all" when it comes to retaining women. Half of the respondents said flexible hours were important to them.
Nearly all, 94 percent, believed they could achieve a balance between a satisfying professional career and a gratifying personal life.
When asked to rank barriers to their careers, 12 percent cited marriage, 19 percent said maternity policies and 30 percen
