Where the Bright Women Are is a project with a simple aim – to find all of those bright, cool women we all used to know in our teens, 20s and 30s and discover more about the paths they’d taken, and the choices that they’d made.

Fiona, one of the project founders, says “With backgrounds in research and journalism, and having worked in the communications industry for years, it constantly baffles us that so many women have ‘gone missing’. We know they’re somewhere – we just don’t know where, because they aren’t, generally, sitting on the boards of FTSE100 companies, but nor are they all sitting in coffee shops living off their husbands.”

With so many conversations abounding about women in the boardroom, stay-at-home mums and how maternity rights are affecting women’s careers, the founders think that it often seems as if the only people who don’t share their opinions are the women themselves.

So, what are all the bright women doing? In order to find out, they have created a blogsite and a survey. Fiona adds, “Our emerging hypothesis is that many, many bright women want to work. It’s just that the conventions around traditional corporate environments no longer work for them – whether or not they have children. We believe that the future for many women will be in an environment they create for themselves – a business, a partnership, or volunteering. So we are particularly interested in understanding more about women who are taking the plunge, and doing things for themselves.”

Please click here if you would like to take part in the survey and add your views. And for more information about the project, please visit www.wherethebrightwomenare.com

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