Les femmes et la réussite sociale
Women and Social Success

Summary/Abstract: The phenomenon of women dropping out of growing careers cut across all occupations and sectors. If we take a closer look at the trajectory of these women, their approach, with identical sequencing, raises questions: these women love their job, know they are efficient, they are regularly promoted, increased and identified as young talents or high potentials by those who employ them. On the surface, there's no reason why they shouldn't continue this momentum. They are leaving the system by the dozens, the system their mothers and grandmothers dreamed of entering.These women are privileged, they grew up in a socially favored environment, benefit from the financial support of those around them, especially their spouses, and they have the possibility of leaving their careers and reinventing themselves professionally. Many face economic hardship, raise their children alone, support inactive husbands or companions, or carry elderly or sick parents at arm's length. They have priorities that do not allow them the freedom to abandon their work or to do it differently. The paths of these former successful women nevertheless shed light on the question of the permanent negotiation between professional identity and personal identity in which all women engage, at all social levels. Advantaged by their educational background, their remunerative professions allowing them to delegate domestic tasks, the women in question here are often considered as “having everything”, including the choice to leave the system. In this context, it is tempting to see the movement of abandonment of good careers by some as a failure. In particular, one could argue that this phenomenon constitutes a social waste, a waste of talent, a loss for the companies, firms and banks which employ these women, but also for the universities, schools and society as a whole which have invested in their education and training. In the name of their first weapons made side by side, in the name of this power, of this confidence that women feel and that they are today ready to express, because we no longer need to be in competition and because 'they no longer need to compete and because our society is finally opening up to the idea that listening to and having women lead could save money, time and meaning, we must invite women to experience the power of this new sisterhood that they have discovered on a daily basis. It is proposed to those who leave to keep in touch with those who remain, to encourage them, to admire them and to continue to praise them and vice versa. We must encourage dialogue, the sharing of experiences, the improvement of the situation at work, by small benevolent touches towards each other. We must experience and demonstrate the power of united women every day. The purpose of my article is to present that the sum of women who abandon positions of responsibility to work differently, far from constituting a series of isolated accidents or a questioning of women's professional ambition, constitutes a real phenomenon. prefiguring the model of social success of tomorrow, which will be based on contemporary and unifying values.

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