Motherhood stalls military careers, says former Navy chief

A former Royal Navy chief has claimed that the careers of women in the military are being derailed by motherhood.

Carolyn Stait, who was commander of the nuclear HM Naval Base Clyde, at Faslane, until 2007, told delegates at an Institute of Directors (IoD) conference that there was no glass ceiling in the Royal Navy, yet career progression was dependent on being “mobile and deployable”.
 

Language does not simply reflect what is going on in organisational life: it also influences what people think and what they do

Linda Holbeche, director of the Holbeche Partnership and visiting professor of HRM/OD at Cass Business School