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Published: March 9th, 2021
Paul Harrietha says that early in their careers, when he and his wife were both in the consulting field and working their way up, they found that he accelerated very quickly, becoming a partner quite early.
His wife and several of her friends, who Harrietha says were harder working, smarter and more committed to their jobs, were all plateauing at the director level. They couldn’t crack the ceiling.
Paul Harrietha
“I got intrigued by that, and I wanted to know why these women who were so committed, hard-working, talented, qualified, and so well-credentialed were all plateauing, while a bunch of us who were sort of hard-working but also beer-swilling, golfing sort of guys were out in getting all the big jobs,” Harrietha, who is also the principal at CAPS Leadership Group, a research cooperative committed to the pursuit of gender equity in Canada, told