Do Female CEO's Mean Family Friendly Workplaces?

In the article, Do Female CEO's Mean Family-Friendly Workplaces, Anna North starts a debate over whether having women in larger leadership roles makes a better workplace for other women below them. When looked into further not much information came up helping the issue that more female executives might help lower the wage gap, and create a more family friendly workplace. The article actually points out that a study found that when there were in fact women in higher positions they were not more likely to pay their male and female employees equally. If there are women who hold the power to change the status quo, but still can not manage to treat the women and men of their companies equally then what message does that send to women working below them? Not a very encouraging one in my opinion. This reminded me of the article we read in class, Why Women Still Cant have it All, by Anne-Marie Slaughter. There was a part in the article where she was talking about how she had her dream job but still felt as though she needed to be home with her 14 year old son. When she went on to talk to a female colleague, who held a senior position in the white house, she told her about her difficulties juggling her roles and to me the interaction they had was not an effective one. Ultimately this woman left her job and  "hurried home as fast as she could". There are not many women holding high leadership roles in companies, but if the few that are would step up and make the attempt to positively encourage the women under them then it would be beneficial for women everywhere.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/do-female-ceos-mean-family-friendly-workplaces