Women in the Gen X generation use a simultaneous approach to advance their careers that involve strategy and planning to show where their career is going, and will they perform well in that role. Human resource departments are encouraged to acquire tools that permit women to manage this approach. Forty-five percent of the women studied conveyed that planning a career was the second highest important factor to achieving advancements in their career. Thirty-three percent of the women state that the third highest factor to achieving advancement in their careers is organizational empowerment. Organizational empowerment comes from managers that support and advocate for advancement of the female employees. According to 8 percent of the women in the study, networking is the fourth highest factor in achieving career advancement. The Baby Boomer generation is beginning to exit the work force leaving leadership roles vacant allowing women from the next generation to prepare them these types of jobs (Steele,
Women in the Gen X generation use a simultaneous approach to advance their careers that involve strategy and planning to show where their career is going, and will they perform well in that role. Human resource departments are encouraged to acquire tools that permit women to manage this approach. Forty-five percent of the women studied conveyed that planning a career was the second highest important factor to achieving advancements in their career. Thirty-three percent of the women state that the third highest factor to achieving advancement in their careers is organizational empowerment. Organizational empowerment comes from managers that support and advocate for advancement of the female employees. According to 8 percent of the women in the study, networking is the fourth highest factor in achieving career advancement. The Baby Boomer generation is beginning to exit the work force leaving leadership roles vacant allowing women from the next generation to prepare them these types of jobs (Steele,