Women Like Me

No visionary leader or innovative founder has ever started something with an ambition to fit in the system as it is. They look to build new, better ecosystems. What is the point of aspiring to leadership positions if we don’t recognise the power it offers us to impact the world more positively? If we don’t have the courage to use that power to make new choices, then it is not really power. It is proximity to someone else’s power. And they are very different things.

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A refreshing perspective on women in leadership positions. Thank you.

Really thought provoking. The ‘women like you’ comment sounds ok on the face of it until you started digging a bit deeper as you did, thankfully and used it to spur you on to greater things. I had a similar comment right back at the start of my career in healthcare. I was told the career I chose was “good for a woman”. In other words, I could take career breaks to have children without it harming my career too much and I did. But at that point I wasn’t even thinking of having children and why should that come first anyway? If you flip it the other way though, would anyone have said to a man that it was a “good career for a man”? No, they would not and yet men have careers and families and can be the primary caregiver to their children too. Putting people into boxes and limiting their ambitions has been done for al humanity and will continue but ‘women like you’ and me can see through that and take it to spur us on to bigger and better things
Tldr: loved this, made me think a lot, thank you! ☺️