The Four Phases of Women's Careers
1h 1mGeneral2024-03-13
Authors

CRFT Productions
Full-Service Learning Content Company

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox
Course details
This course, designed by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, offers a comprehensive overview of why traditional career models do not fit women perfectly. Avivah takes you through the pivotal decades of many women’s careers, from the ambitious 20s to the self-actualizing 50s, providing strategies for thriving in each phase. Along the way, Avivah emphasizes the importance of balancing professional growth with personal goals, plateauing strategically, accelerating when necessary, and leaning into your full career potential so when the time is ripe, you are ready. Whether you're a manager or an early-career employee on a team, this course provides a forward-looking perspective on managing careers over decades. Get ahead of what the future of work looks like for all genders by carefully designing career-and-life-phase management that’s fit for humans.
Skills covered
Workplace EquityInclusive LeadershipCareer ManagementDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)Leadership SkillsCareer DevelopmentLeadership and ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Proactively managing career cycles
- 02 - Are women s careers different from men's
1. Future of Work Flexibility for the New Majority
- 03 - The future of work for all genders
- 04 - Flexibility in the future of work
2. Today s Successful Career - The Up or Out Model
- 05 - Today s successful career model - The up or out model
- 06 - Why today's career model doesn t fit women
- 07 - The different shapes of women's careers
3. Women s Career Cycles - The Four Phases
- 08 - The ambitious 20s in women's careers
- 09 - Getting the most from your 20s
- 10 - Fast-tracking women in their 20s
- 11 - The culture shock 30s in women's careers
- 12 - Getting the most from your 30s
- 13 - How to balance women's careers in their 30s
- 14 - The reacceleration 40s in women's careers
- 15 - Getting the most from your 40s
- 16 - The self-actualization 50s in women's careers
- 17 - Leaning in and getting the most from your 50s
- 18 - How to lean in for women's careers in their 50s
- 19 - The dangers of ignoring women's career phases
Conclusion
- 20 - Sustainable career phase management