Well climbing the corporate ladder is going to be the measure of corporate success.
More like used to by. Why climb ladders when you can change jobs going up every time?
And at the prison the measure of success is being the warden, but who wants that?
I imagine some of the inmates would kill to be the warden.
Yep. Every woman developer I've talked to wants to be a manager someday.
Some even go for junior manager (a lot lower pay) even thought they have the degree and skills to be mid developers without any problems.
This is ridiculous. Not every woman I know wants to be a manager, and despite their proficiencies, they are seen as "more personable" and implicitly, less technical. Women being pushed into management and out of technical lead roles is a very well known phenomenon in the field, and people here pretending like this is "success" seem to be very happy to ignore that this fits very nicely with the status quo of sexism.
Aren't management positions better paid than technical ones almost anywhere though? I realize some progressive companies try to establish engineering path and managerial path but it's still not standard. I think thinking in terms: more likely to be a manager = more successful in corporate environment is not that far fetched.
Interesting. I've found the opposite, to be honest. Or, the ones I've met that work in big companies seem to be interested in just coding or doing technical work.
I guess it's all pretty anecdotal, though.
My wife was offended the first time her manager told her that she should think about management as a career path :)
But still, it remains a measure of both success and opportunity (presence or absence of ceilings).