I recently read this article – referencing my generation of women (Y) as the most ignored leadership pipeline in business. I thought it was an interesting read (not that I’m biased or anything!). I can certainly attest to the fact that more than anything else in my career, I seek challenges and responsibility. Funny enough, I had to chuckle this week while watching Thoroughly Modern Millie (LOVE it!) as Millie kept referring to herself as a ‘Modern’ – destined to enter the ‘man’s world,’ wear knee-length dresses, and marry her boss.

Sandwiched somewhere between the Moderns and the X-es, the Boomers, are a whole different species. Certainly a broad stereotype… but I couldn’t resist posting this when I ran across her style blog (and various other user-interactive content) on wheeloffortune.com

…talk about job repetition. I’m pretty sure that Vanna’s score would top the job boredom scale. Is it just me, or did most of the lady boomers settle for jobs that would make it hard to want to get up every morning just thinking about having to go in to the office? Then there’s the X-ers.

These women flooded the corporate offices, proving their prowess as writers/engineers/lawyers/doctors, and branding themselves as the mothers that infamously raised latch-key kids.

Certainly much more family-centric, us Y-ers are left asking questions like ‘How flexible is my schedule?’, ‘What all can I balance?’, and ‘What is it that makes being more edjumacated than the average woman AND being home with my kids after school so critical?’ I just want to spend my time in meaningful and useful ways no matter where I am.

But I’m not the only one – as proved by the stat (per Deloitte survey) that more than half of workers in their 20s prefer employment at companies that offer volunteer opportunities. Also, companies are starting to realize that they are going to have to get more creative in order to keep talented women on the road to success. Companies like Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Sara Lee (read more here) have already launched restarting and returns programs for associates that find themselves opting out of the workplace and yet maintaining a longer term strategy to stay connected.

WE wonders if ten years from now women will even still let men work because women might just take over. Like an alien invasion.

Humm…does that mean that ten years from now, a man can have Vanna’s job???