The typical housewife culture in South Africa was (and hopefully still is!) that a housewife has her own social activities, and isn’t a slave to the family or the house and should never be expected to. By comparison so many of my friends here in the UK are used to doing it all including the…
Is Mrs Moneypenny Wrong?
I’ve just finished reading Mrs Moneypenny’s Careers Advice for Ambitious Women. To start off, I thought it was fantastic. Her chapter on the importance of networking made perfect sense to me and inspired me to get up and really start paying attention to my relationships both in and out of work. To be fair, the…
Leadership in Chaos
“What’s most important for a business is what people do when they don’t know what to do.” This quote by James Wright in an FT article has stuck with me. It was expressed in the context of what modern MBAs offer and whether or not they actually teach the skills that business wants from its…
Being Successful with Quality of Life
I have a theory that it’s possible to have a successful career and to have a good work-life balance. When I first developed my theory, I wasn’t sure if it was possible, but then doing what hasn’t been done before is what I enjoy so that didn’t deter me (much). What did worry me was…
It’s not a woman-thing; It’s a confidence thing.
I’ve started reading Lean in. It’s taken me months to decide whether or not to read it but in the end my curiosity was just too much, though Sandberg herself unwittingly provides an explanation for why I have been so reluctant to read a(nother) book about women in the workplace “Evidence shows that people tend…
Dads are Queen-makers
Fathers are the key to getting women into the boardroom and into technology-driven industries. I’m watching my husband and daughter play Lego Batman2 (DC Superheroes), and it’s hit me that Dads are the key to getting women into the C-suite and into engineering and technology industries. Dads teach little girls a whole new range of…
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