{"id":19613,"date":"2015-02-26T09:28:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T17:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19613"},"modified":"2015-02-26T09:28:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T17:28:40","slug":"cartoon-people-grow-old-excuses-live-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19613","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: People Grow Old, Excuses Live Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This cartoon was created in collaboration with the wonderful Becky Hawkins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Transcript:<\/p>\n

Panel 1
\nA young man (20s or 30s) is talking with cheerful optimism to a woman who is about 60 years old. In the background a female secretary works on a laptop.
\nMAN: The reason most executives are male isn’t sexism. It just takes time for women to get promoted! In thirty years lots of top executives will be women!
\nWOMAN: Do you ever get deja vu?<\/p>\n

Panel 2
\nA caption says TEN YEARS EARLIER. The same woman, who looks about 50, is listening to a different cheerful man talk. In the background, a different female secretary works on a computer with a flatscreen monitor.
\nMAN: The reason most executives are male isn’t sexism.<\/p>\n

Panel 3
\nA caption says TWENTY YEARS EARLIER. The same woman, now about 40, is listening to a different cheerful man. In the background, a female secretary works on a computer with a huge boxy monitor.
\nMAN: It just takes time for women to get promoted!<\/p>\n

Panel 4
\nA caption says THIRTY YEARS EARLIER. The same woman, now about 30, is being talked out by a cheerful man with a big mustache. But the woman has turned and is listening to the secretary in the background, an older woman working on an electric typewriter.
\nMAN: In thirty years, lots of top executives will be women.
\nSECRETARY: Do you ever get deja vu?<\/p>\n

CAPTION FOR ENTIRE CARTOON: People grow old, excuses live forever.<\/p>\n

Further reading: Fact Sheet: The Women\u2019s Leadership Gap | Center for American Progress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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