As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success.
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The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn't your gender - it's you.
I feel that gender balance in the work environment is actually the best recipe for success.
The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.
My gender has never been an issue or a limitation. I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by strong women growing up, and with them as my role models, I was never limited by the traditional roles women find themselves in.
We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to build their careers as the boys and men are. From the start.
Call it nature or nurture, there are differences in how men and women approach professional conduct, and facing these issues head-on will make us all more equipped to succeed.
Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.