Results at the Top

Chapter 5ASCENT OF MEN

The leaders of most businesses today are men. There is no question that men have built amazing corporations, achieved tremendous feats of production, developed new technologies in agriculture and consumer products, and globalized the world, thereby lifting millions out of poverty across the globe. These achievements have resulted in the wealth of the world increasing nearly continuously for centuries.

Of course many women also played important roles, but it took societal change to begin to realize their potential and that progress has been slow. The purpose of Results at the Top is to convince these same leaders that their organizations would function and perform even better if they combined the talents of women and men in order to lead their organizations into the future.

MEN ACCELERATING CHANGE

Men have played important roles in all of the significant developments involving bringing women into positions where they can achieve the full realization of their potential. Men were the ones who created the legislation to give women the right to vote and it was men who voted in favor of that legislation. How do we know? Why of course it was men, because women had no right to vote at that time.

How about the millions of men who supported the Equal Rights Amendment in the United States? No, it did not succeed, but that does not diminish all of the support that men provided in the effort.

How about the business clubs that have voted to end the decades‐long ...