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2. Make your partner a real partner. If a woman and a man work full time and
have a child, the woman does twice the amount of housework the man does and three
times the amount of child care than the man does. So shes got 2 jobs or 3 jobs and
hes got 1. There is a lack of equality in this situation.
3. Dont leave before you leave. Dont make decisions too far in advance. I think
there is a really deep irony to the fact that what women do with the objective of staying
in the work force, actually lead to their eventually leaving. When a woman starts thinking
about having a child, she starts thinking about making room for all that. And literally
from that moment she doesnt raise her hand anymore. She doesnt look for a
promotion, she doesnt take on the new project, she doesnt say she wants to do this or
that. The thing is she starts thinking about this kind of things way too early.
Some people might say that women are not self-promoters and often allow emotion
to intervene where black-and-white decisions should be made. But I believe that
emotional intelligence is the key to improve and transform leadership. What most of
bosses, colleagues or mentors dont remark about women is their other natural
tendencies: their aggressive nature, unmatched level of perseverance, supreme loyalty,
natural multi-scenario thinking and superior multi-tasking skills. Most high functioning
women can have two to three possible solutions for a problem and be ready to
strategize it right away.
In my opinion, the problem is people have no clue women have these skills because
we are grown up in a world where most of the top jobs are held by men. In the end,
most high level professionals (men and women alike) are looking for the best person to
do the job, not just the best man.