Speaker Presentation: Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Co-sponsor: New Jersey Corporate Counsel Association (NJCCA)

Thirty-seven percent of women put their careers on hold entirely for an average of over two years, usually for childcare or elder care reasons, while 36% switch to part-time schedules, and many of the remainder scale down in other ways. The vast majority—93 percent—eventually want to return to mainstream, full-time work, but only 40 percent do. These eye-opening statistics are the result of studies by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, the economist and author whose latest book was the topic of her July 2007 appearance hosted by STRIDES and the NJCCA. In addition to the impact of “off-ramping” and the difficulty of “on-ramping” for women, the presentation also focused on the real costs to companies that lose key female talent in a highly competitive global market and analyzed through case studies successful policies and programs that some firms have implemented to address the problem.

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