Unit3 L5: Women Opting out

2. Put the bracketed words in the correct tense or form. According to a report, Asia's women face more barriers than those in the West in penetrating the top ranks of corporate management, contributing to a shortage of talent that [threat] [blank_start]threatens[blank_end] to suppress the region's economic [grow] [blank_start]growth[blank_end] . There's a much stronger barrier in terms of the [believe] [blank_start]belief[blank_end] that women have to stay home to take care of their families. Most women, who reached the middle and senior levels of management and left their jobs [willing] [blank_start]willingly[blank_end], did so due to family [commit] [blank_start]commitment[blank_end]. The survey by McKinsey & Co. suggests that increasing the number of women in high-level positions can improve companies' financial performance and countries' economic expansion. "Women tend to be stronger in terms of collaboration and people development , while men tend to be stronger in individual decision [make] [blank_start]making[blank_end] ," says Wang Jin, a principal at McKinsey. But how [fast] [blank_start]fast[blank_end] Asia's women can climb the corporate ladder depends on when societies change their way of thinking.