Research conducted throughout the world shows gender balance in top positions contributes to improved competitiveness and better business performance.
From Beth Brooke
What I don't underestimate is everybody's deal is different and everybody's deal makes it difficult. And so it is incumbent upon employers to create flexible work environments that allow people to fulfill their professional and personal lives in a way that works for themselves.
Research shows that women at that mid level tend to get promoted based on performance, and men tend to get promoted based on potential.
I think what you have to recognise is everybody has their own deal, and everybody has challenges. Do I think that it was easier for me because at a certain point in my career I didn't have children? Yeah, I think absolutely so. But everybody has their own deal.
I'm motivated by very small successes.
Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting.
Sometimes women get devastated by failing. Athletes don't; they just know that means they've got to practise harder, and they've got to do something else differently.
Sponsorship involves putting your own political capital at risk, so they are going to help that person to succeed. Women get promoted; they don't get sponsored. Women know they are on their own if they get that promotion.
Mentorship has been an excuse not to promote women.
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