The Book of Farm Girl

women exec 1:21AM

okay looks like i've sparked a bit of a debate here... (see tpz 486980747551) the reason a female exec is hard to find IS BECAUSE they have to act like men to make it work!! and for most females acting like a man is pretty hard to pull off (the docileness, the primativeness, the 'i want a beer and/or a fuck preferably both' mentality). chicks are a little more sophisticated, illustrated by the fact that we can have babies (and many more things obviously). yea okay so i am just having a go at the guys. tho on the topic of babies WHY SHOULD THAT BE SUCH A DISSADVANTAGE?? i understand that a woman will probably have to take some time off work BUT think outside the square boys there are ways to incorporate a woman with kids into a company with acceptable cost.

i agree with reggie that men and women are different, not better or worse (see reggie on the 27th jan 2003). of course men and women are different. that is the beauty of it all! what i'm trying to say is that woman's strengths are yet to shine through. i do believe the corporate world is still geared for men. OTHERWISE the best female exec's WOULDN'T be acting like men to succeed.

also i'm not talking open oppression or sexism, personally i've come up against very little of that today and i agree with reggie that sexism is very rarely practised today in australia and new zealand (haven't had much to do with the rest of the world. the world is in the long term plans). what i am talking about tho is common, everyday, work practises and attitudes that aren't even consciously recognised by anyone to be geared towards men. i'm no feminist or man hater (hell i love guys!) but i think that the way up for the corporate world is to fully accept the woman's way and INCORPORATE it with current practises and attitudes. yea it could be a blow to the nads that a woman's opinion will have to be fully trusted on this matter but i reckon it IS the way of the future.

robert kiyosaki (AMAZING MAN, if you get nothing from anything i have written today READ HIS BOOKS all of them!!) and an article i read while i was on one of the gorgeous new virgin boeing 737's in their inflight magazine, about a company called 'goss' (www.getthegoss.com.au), totally opened my eyes on this subject. the corporate world is still geared towards men and most people don't even realise it. goss, being a cosmetic company, and obviously mostly women, had no trouble incorporating new, female based, work practises and attitudes but i think some lessons can be learnt even for companies with very few females like engineering.

within a company one of the most difficult, yet most rewarding, things for a manager to do is to recognise an individual's potential and exploit it for the good of that person and the good of the company. i don't think that having the combined talents of females in the corporate world has been fully exploited for everyone's benefit. there is a huge untapped resource! robert kiyosaki reckons that the first country to do this will be the next world economic leader. now i think this is pretty out there but i do think the benefits have undeniable potential for good.

i'm gonna do some more research on this, my little pet project, and get back to you. i believe strongly in what i'm saying here.

i also believe that i can have it all and i will have it all!