Comments on: Women and Leadership http://friedaloh.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/women-and-leadership/ Personal Reflections - What Inspires and Moves Me to Write... Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:31:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: RayLim http://friedaloh.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/women-and-leadership/#comment-32 RayLim Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:27:01 +0000 http://friedaloh.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-32 Hi Frieda, came to your bog via Jadely's... It's nice & refreshing to read your thoughts! There are many things to say about the lack of female representation in top leadership in the corporate & political arenas. I think many a capable woman decided to turn away from their upward trajectory for a dedication to motherhood, because being a mother is more important to them than being successful elsewhere. Either way, it's choice. Of course, there has been wonderful examples of successful corporate/political leaders cum mothers. They should be much respected. Of course, it's sad that most men would choose to not even entertain the thought of being a stay-at-home dad... and stigma is one major reason why. For me, I'm extremely blessed to have a wife who chooses to put the family over her career, thus allowing me to concentrate on my career. To every man who has such a wife, I would shake his hand and say "you, my friend, is indeed very blessed"... =) My 2 cents' worth... Hi Frieda, came to your bog via Jadely’s…
It’s nice & refreshing to read your thoughts!

There are many things to say about the lack of female representation in top leadership in the corporate & political arenas. I think many a capable woman decided to turn away from their upward trajectory for a dedication to motherhood, because being a mother is more important to them than being successful elsewhere. Either way, it’s choice. Of course, there has been wonderful examples of successful corporate/political leaders cum mothers. They should be much respected.

Of course, it’s sad that most men would choose to not even entertain the thought of being a stay-at-home dad… and stigma is one major reason why.

For me, I’m extremely blessed to have a wife who chooses to put the family over her career, thus allowing me to concentrate on my career. To every man who has such a wife, I would shake his hand and say “you, my friend, is indeed very blessed”… =)

My 2 cents’ worth…

]]> By: d a morton http://friedaloh.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/women-and-leadership/#comment-31 d a morton Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:46:43 +0000 http://friedaloh.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-31 I agree wholeheartedly that we must strive for equality between the genders. However, I think our definition of equality gets confused with "the same". We must admit that we are fundamentally different right down to the DNA level. Therefore, we are not built to do the same things. We are built as specialist. Men can benchpress more and women can give birth. In my humble opinion if we decided to celebrate our differences instead of erase them we would be off as a society and quite possibly a world. Consider the female CEO who is also both wife and mother. How good can she really be at all three roles simultaneously. And, moreover, who suffers because of her attempts. I would purport that we all do - CEO, wife, mom, dad and child. And eventually society suffers from the result of another poorly reared child attempting to find his/her way in the world and perpetuating the process. I say that all the women in the world should get together at an international forum and decide, "do you want to be women or men?" Because during this dime when you are "trying to have it all" it is all going to pot. I agree wholeheartedly that we must strive for equality between the genders. However, I think our definition of equality gets confused with “the same”. We must admit that we are fundamentally different right down to the DNA level. Therefore, we are not built to do the same things. We are built as specialist. Men can benchpress more and women can give birth. In my humble opinion if we decided to celebrate our differences instead of erase them we would be off as a society and quite possibly a world. Consider the female CEO who is also both wife and mother. How good can she really be at all three roles simultaneously. And, moreover, who suffers because of her attempts. I would purport that we all do – CEO, wife, mom, dad and child. And eventually society suffers from the result of another poorly reared child attempting to find his/her way in the world and perpetuating the process. I say that all the women in the world should get together at an international forum and decide, “do you want to be women or men?” Because during this dime when you are “trying to have it all” it is all going to pot.

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