Women At Work Un-stereotyped Edition I
The women participants represented two demographics: young women in full time jobs who are wrestling with the idea of starting a family and weighing the cost of it on their careers and middle-aged women who left the workforce and are unsure of their reentry.
Younger women in their sharing indicated that they can get by without working if they leave the workforce and therefore rarely think in a long-term way about how this departure will affect their retirement savings or their ability to weather unpredictable financial challenges. Older women conversely shared how they often concluded the unviability of working as the returns were not worthy sacrificing time with their children. In conclusion the Speaker of the topic, Ms. Shee Kamwathi offered that many women throw in the towel and completely exit the workforce without fully exploring alternatives to the more-than-full-time corporate grind.
Women often interrupt their earnings and put themselves into this precarious financial situation because they still define “work” in one narrow, traditional way. Too many women throw in the towel and completely exit the workforce without fully exploring alternatives to the more-than-full-time corporate grind.
She further encouraged women to seek flexibility in a current job, acknowledging that standing up to the corporate hierarchy is no easy task. Additionally, asked women that shun asking for a flexible but rather than make a comprehensive, professional pitch for the flexibility they really need.
To the Human Resource Managers Shee asserted that flexibility makes it possible for more women to participate consistently in the workforce alongside caregiving roles; and fulfill their own measures of ambition and success.
Finally, at the Women Leaders’ Hangout we concluded that: Huge compensation from top corporate roles is not the only path to financial security: when women become better educated about saving and investing steadily at all ages-and they stay in the workforce in some way at all times they will build more, their career mobility is more steady.
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