Comments on: Post-Menopausal Women Can Run the World http://www.femagination.com/2009/07/post-menopausal-women-can-run-the-world/ the feminist imagination blog Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:44:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ellen Keimhttp://www.femagination.com/2009/07/post-menopausal-women-can-run-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Ellen Keim Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:04:22 +0000 http://www.femagination.com/?p=1162#comment-107 Today's young women are supposedly claiming that their feminist mothers misled them when they said that a woman can have it all, because it is simply too hard to try to balance children, home and career (not to mention marriage). Whether this is true depends on the woman. I congratulate you for not succumbing to the pressures put on young women to give up careers in favor of motherhood. I'm not saying that a woman can't do it, only that it's hard. Today’s young women are supposedly claiming that their feminist mothers misled them when they said that a woman can have it all, because it is simply too hard to try to balance children, home and career (not to mention marriage). Whether this is true depends on the woman. I congratulate you for not succumbing to the pressures put on young women to give up careers in favor of motherhood. I’m not saying that a woman can’t do it, only that it’s hard.

]]> By: hot-flashhttp://www.femagination.com/2009/07/post-menopausal-women-can-run-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-106 hot-flash Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:36:00 +0000 http://www.femagination.com/?p=1162#comment-106 She was actually saying the "parents" make bad employees. Not just women. But if you look at the female part of the equation it sounds reasonable but is simply not true.Having children does not hold women back on their careers. These days career women employ nannies and muster up other care givers, including husbands, to take over those aspects of parenting that can interfere with a corporate career.I had this myth thrown as me by a CEO once. I was ok as the 2IC because I was single and childless. But then later not having a permanent partner was viewed with suspicion - who was I sleeping with was the question. So I was damned if I didn't and damned if I did. And I was damned if I was going to put up with it. So I now own my own successful company with a 7 year old in tow.So this is just one of those boardroom myths that we must not play along with because we are perpetuating it. She was actually saying the “parents” make bad employees. Not just women. But if you look at the female part of the equation it sounds reasonable but is simply not true.

Having children does not hold women back on their careers. These days career women employ nannies and muster up other care givers, including husbands, to take over those aspects of parenting that can interfere with a corporate career.

I had this myth thrown as me by a CEO once. I was ok as the 2IC because I was single and childless. But then later not having a permanent partner was viewed with suspicion – who was I sleeping with was the question. So I was damned if I didn’t and damned if I did. And I was damned if I was going to put up with it. So I now own my own successful company with a 7 year old in tow.

So this is just one of those boardroom myths that we must not play along with because we are perpetuating it.

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