Why mid-career women are leaving corporate America for entrepreneurship

New research finds that women aren’t abandoning ambition—they’re leaving workplaces that fail to accommodate caregiving realities.

BY Krystal Duarte and Lisa Kaplowitz

You landed your dream job, or so you thought. But quiet doubts grow harder to ignore: “Did I choose right?” “Can I do this for the rest of my life?” “I want something more.”

These questions seem to collide with major life transitions that often hit in your 30s or 40s: raising children, paying mortgages, and caring for parents in the same way they once cared for us. All of it converges into a pivotal decision: Do I stay on this........

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