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Summary Of So Few Women Are In The Boardroom By Marty Nemko

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In the essay “The Real Reason So Few Women Are in The Boardroom,” Marty Nemko explains why there are few women holding the higher positions in big corporations. He shares the fact that on average, women are very good managers, but they rarely make it to the top. In the Fortune 500 companies, women make up fifty percent of the senior managers, but they only make up one percent of the CEOs (Move On Up, 2005). Nemko’s thesis as to why there are so few women in the boardroom is that women tend to prioritize a balance between work and family, which is hard to have when CEOs normally work fifty or more hours a week. To become a CEO a person must be willing to bring work home and work overtime. Overall, I think Nemko provided an excellent argument with persuasive statistics, effective devices, strong points and credentials that make him qualified to take the position he takes. …show more content…

Nemko has a doctorate degree in education from the University of California, Berkely, where he also used to teach. He is currently working as a career coach. He is a very intelligent writer and has been interviewed numerous times by some famous magazines, including Times and Cosmopolitan, and some radio stations. He has been producing his own talk radio on NPR, Work with Marty Nemko, for twenty-seven years (Nemko). He has written seven books including, Cool Careers for Dummies 3rd edition and What’s the Big Idea? Reinventions for a Better America. Nemko also has his own blog, where he has written many articles about jobs and education. After researching all of Nemko’s credentials, I would say that he does have the authority to write an essay on the issue about the Fortune 500 Senior Executives being eighty-eight percent

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