tlcorbin
Hazel CastilloWomen on Top, why aren't they?
April 9th 2008 12:22
Hello, how's your day? Let's have a bit of a chitchat this tiring mid-week. I have something that I thought of just before I left work today...
This week, the top management people from our company flew in from the US to visit our site here in Asia and the new ones we're building.
I couldn't help but notice how much testosterone you can see walking around! Again, these are the top bosses of the company, AVPs, VPs, CFOs, etc. I couldn't help but wonder, where have the women gone?
I know that women can definitely make it up the top, but howcome they don't? The answer came to me as quickly as the question did actually. Most of us women choose not to. I can use me as an example, I had a great opportunity to move up the ladder just a few months ago, but because I want to focus more on raising my child and building a family, I decided against it.
I know we get a lot of female coffee drinkers around here, so I'd like to hear your thoughts. If you were a mom and you have an equal chance to move up there, would you? It's definitely difficult to balance career and family life, very few have. I mean even Tomb Raider Angelina Jolie hasn't. She chose family which is why she's not in blockbuster movies now, but she's happy with it. Julia Roberts, J. Lo and a lot of other new celebrity moms decided to lay low for a while and in other businesses or industry you don't have the same luxury to "relax" and focus on something else before you go back -- they'd get a replacement ASAP, business needs as they say.
Men, unless they're single parents, can always focus on career first. It's easier to say they're working hard for their family. I know it was society way before that dictated men provide while the women nurture the family, it's still very prominent in this world today.
So here, share a nice warm cup of White Choco Mocha with me or whatever it is you fancy and share with me your thoughts on this. Hey the guys are also always welcome.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909 - 1993), in All About Eve
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Combination of country and company culture I think.... Good topic Hazel!
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Good point, a combination of both. Definitely.
Here, have a hot cuppa Mocha. Or did you want something else?
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