To Manage Latin America’s Demographic Shifts, Support Women
The changes underway are the result of largely positive trends, although governments can do more to handle the transition.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on Latin America’s demographic transformation When I attended Columbia University Graduate School of Business in New York in the 1970s, the percentage of women MBA students was only about 5-10%. Upon graduation, Citibank hired me as one of just a handful of women international trainees and sent me to Venezuela. People in Caracas were wonderful, but there were very few women in the workforce—and the men seemed a bit mystified by my life choices, asking me if I wouldn’t have preferred to stay in the U.S., get married and have...
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