I became aware of the trial of career-focused European woman a few years ago when I met a post-doctoral student from Germany who was then a visiting fellow at Johns Hopkins. She was astonished by the professional possibilities afforded to young American woman. Her best hope in Germany was a government job prospects for woman in the private sector were dim. In Germany she told me, we have all the benefits, but employers don t wan to hire us.
Swedish economists Magnus Henrekson and Mikael Stenkula addressed the following question in their 2009 study: why are there so few female top executives in the European egalitarianwelfare states? Their answer: Broad-based welfare-state policies hinder women s representation in elite competitive positions.
It is tempting to declare the Swedish policies regressiveand hail the American system as superior. But that would be shortsighted. The Swedes can certainly take a lesson from the United States and look for ways to clear a path for their ambitious female careerists. But most woman are not committed careerists. When the Pew Research Center recently asked American parents to identify their ideal life arrangement, 47 percent of mothers said they would prefer to work park-time and 20percent said they would prefer not to work at all. Fathers answered differently: 75 percent preferred full-time work. Some version of the Swedish system might work well for a majority of American parents, but the United States is unlikely to fully embrace the Swedish model. Still, we can learn from their experience.
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