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Women are still largely unrepresented in business, government and even the non-profit sector. Facebook’s COO, Sheryl Sandberg talks about the reasons why and suggests what women might do differently but I’m not entirely convinced the answers we’re looking for will arrive as long as we keep asking the same questions. Instead, I believe it’s time for a new paradigm.
She asks that women ‘keep their foot on the gas” with regard to their career up until the last possible moment in to lengthen their impact in the game. But what if you are interested in taking a time-out to raise a family?
If we penalize these women for leaving and then dismiss them when they arrive later, is it any wonder few women overall sit at the table. If the game won’t wait for you, find another game.
My instincts are, women themselves will have to take the lead on their own behalf first by recognizing their choice to embrace motherhood isn’t a set-back. It’s a value-added move that could be tapped, rather than dismissed when you enter the next season of your career and return to the table. There are more places than the playing field to gain game-changing wisdom and perspective.
If you consider many of the hot business trends over the years, almost all of them could have been found in a mother’s toolbox long before they hit the boardroom.
It took me a long-time to make this internal shift. Doing so changed everything.
There are career mothers and mothers with careers, more commonly referred to as stay-at-home and working moms, respectively. Unfortunately the trend has been to pit these two groups against one another, devaluing both sides and completely overlooking the greatest commonality among them, motherhood.
Motherhood is a lifestyle.
When it’s seen as a role to be balanced against a multitude of other roles a woman may take on, a paradox, from which there is no release, ensues. It sets the stage for a no-win drama and ups the ante of pressure women are under.
The only solution is to abandon this limited view and see motherhood for what it really is, a lifestyle choice, no different than bachelorhood, farming, or athletics.
It encompasses everything from where, with whom, and how you choose to spend your time, to your values and entire outlook on life. When motherhood is embraced as a lifestyle, not a segment of your life you must juggle and attempt to balance with the many other supposedly conflicting elements, everything changes. You stop struggling to keep up, to manage multiple roles and identities. You stop being in conflict with yourself.
When motherhood is your lifestyle, it becomes the context for your choices including your work, which can be an expression, or an extension, of the best of who you are and not another task on your to-do list you need to ‘fit in’.
People who follow their inner wisdom, SUCCEED FASTER. Having children is the fastest way to hone your intuition.
REASON # 2
People who live in the present moment, GET THINGS DONE. Children are expert teachers when it comes to being here, now.
REASON # 3
People who know how to laugh and play, MAKE A DIFFERENCE. When it comes to laughter and playtime, kids lead the way.
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