Why is it that when women work with together, they feel the need to pull rank on each other? Why are we not trying to work together to really have generations to come appreciate what feminists fought for. They fought for our independence, for women to be acknowledged by male counterparts as equals.
There is no way men can fight this fight, there is no way men can push the movement for us… all we are doing, by fighting each other and not for one another, is further reinforcing the reasons some men feel women do not belong in the boardroom.
If our generation encourages catty behaviour, then this will hinder the growth of women’s emotional intelligence because we will not teach generations to come the importance of sisterhood and unity. We will break the fibre that attempts to strengthen women and allow women to empower each other.
We need to revisit the idea of what women empowerment means to us before we sell the concept to our male counterparts!
It's about time someone wrote about this...actually how about a young women's workshop and discuss this in detail. But then again, we'd probably end up hating each other's guts by the end of the day. Personally I think its such behaviour that has made looove men bosses...black and white, to the point, no hard feelings, nothing personal. With women, very different... Yeah yeah, we are emotional beings, but we need to be able to draw the line. It's not easy, but it can be done. I agree with you, the "empowerment" concept has been lost somewhere in the emotions and catty behaviour.
ReplyDeleteEmotional intelligence is a skill that we need to learn as women. In the boardroom it's all business and nothing else.
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