Whats possible if women leads
Nov 1, 2021
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what changes, and what doesn’t, under female leadership. Many speculate that more women at the helm in more companies means more opportunities throughout companies for women, having women on the board increases the ranks of women executives. (It also found that companies with women on the boards tend to be more profitable than those with just men.) And a study of New York City advertising agencies over a 13-year period found that “when an agency has more female managers, more newly created jobs are first filled by women.”
Do you think women in power usually leads to more women filling the lower ranks? As a feminist, I want to believe this, but my past experience tells me something different. In the earliest part of my career, when it may have been the most meaningful, I experienced female competitiveness rather than support.
Some people believes that two women can’t share “territory,” even office space, without fighting each other. I’d like to say that isn’t true, but I think it often is. Well, I think it often is when the company only has a small number of women, and a fight for resources ensues, just as it would any time there is a very small population and a limited set of opportunities. If a company were 90 percent female, and there was only a very small population of men, then I would expect the same dynamic to occur, in which the men fight each other for the small number of opportunities available, rather than supporting one another. What do you think?
To create a supportive female community at your company, it’s important first to have enough women employees of all different ages and backgrounds to compose a community. Just a handful of female employees doesn’t make a company diverse or inclusive, or capable of offering meaningful female mentorship opportunities. Once you have a strong women’s community in place at your company, what comes next? Should women employees have their own internal social media site? Or do you think creating sub-communities within the larger employee community is divisive?
I think there are unique challenges facing women in the work world that men even those who handle a great deal of the parenting in their household don’t experience. Most men still don’t have the same pressure placed on them to carry a full load at work and at home.
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