In the past, women tended to assume that they would be
overtaken by men in the race to the top. And, today’s young women are far
less 62. ______. philosophical about
their status and are more aggressive in their
63. ______. resentment in being treated as in some way inferior
than men. On the 64. ______. other
hand, since lack of drive is one of the criticisms leveled with
65. ______. women, perhaps this aggression is a positive
advantage. Some young women, though, find it very difficult to come to
term with the feeling that 66. ______. characteristics of
authority which are acceptable in men are often not acceptable in women. A
reason often advanced for women fail to reach the 67.
______. top is their desire for balance between work and a life outside
work. Employers know this and tend, when a woman with young
children applies for promotion, treat the fact that she has young children as
an 68. ______. important factor and, giving the
choice, are more likely to give promotion 69. ______. to.
a man than to her. What about women whose children are almost
grown up Well, the writers of the study recommend a far much more positive
approach to 70. ______. women who
want to return to their careers before their children are off
71. ______. their hands.