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50 Most Powerful Women in Business 2010…

theEmother — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 02:22:04 +0000

Fortune‘s annual ranking of America’s leading businesswomen… Congratulations to the top 10, and to all who are listed:
1 Indra Nooyi PepsiCo
2 Irene Rosenfeld Kraft Foods
3 Patricia Woertz Archer Daniels Midland
4 Angela Braly WellPoint
5 Andrea Jung Avon Products
6 Oprah Winfrey Harpo and OWN
7 Ellen Kullman DuPont
8 Ginni Rometty IBM
9 Ursula Burns Xerox
10 Carol Bartz Yahoo

Interestingly enough though, from the entrepreneurial mother point of view, only 1 (namely Oprah) has built her own megaPower. Not a bad effort though I must say.

You would not, of course, refer to any listed as being a Mother of a Business either. They might be in size, no denying that, but not in terms of the definition that works for entrepreneurial mothers ie Business gives you Lifestyle, to be the Mother you long to be.

Congratulations go to the 2 Australian Women that rate a mention on the International list:
2 Gail Kelly Westpac
25 Ann Pickard Royal Dutch Shell
Not a place I personally would want to be (hence why I build my Mother of a Business as I do) but very pleased to see other women do want these positions of power.

For the full list and more, click here.

eat, pray, love for the women entrepreneur and beyond…

theEmother — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 03:39:50 +0000

I, for one, really got a lot out of the book “Eat Pray Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert. I too enjoyed the movie. I also got much from her next book; “Committed”. Maybe Elizabeth Gilbert and I are at similar stages in life where what is resonating with her is also with me, in completely different contexts though. Her’s around a blossoming relationship, mine around a blossoming daughter. Nonetheless there is much crossover…

As there is for women entrepreneurs, wonderfully highlighted by Dr Susan L Reid in her article “Eat Pray Love for the Women Entrepreneur“. Well worth a read ladies…

“Vote for my Blog” in the 2010 Business Mums Network Blog Awards…

theEmother — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:36:38 +0000

…please!
Winning an award such as the Business Mums Network Blog Awards will help to bring the wonderful and inspiring stories of all entrepreneurial mothers, especially the primary breadwinners, out of the shadows. Given there are so many of us, and growing, what’s wrong with world domination!

All you have to do is click here and vote for this blog in particular. How simple is that!

Thank you in advance…

The End of Men? I certainly hope not, but responsibility has to be taken for where we’re at right now…

theEmother — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:16:51 +0000

Reading through Tony Featherstone’s article “The Planet of Women” this morning in TheAge.com (which is well worth reading I might add), he brought this to my attention…

As reported in the July/August 2010 ATLANTIC MAGAZINE…

Earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in U.S. history. Most managers are now women too. And for every two men who get a college degree this year, three women will do the same. For years, women’s progress has been cast as a struggle for equality. But what if equality isn’t the end point? What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women? A report on the unprecedented role reversal now under way— and its vast cultural consequences… read on

What if modern, postindustrial society needs to be remoulded to suit the Lifestyle that women aspire to, and that men will also definitely benefit from?

What if all considerations of Life were treated equally as importantly, without there being the lop-sided tilt towards work as it is now?

What if all the entrepreneurial mothers, who have left work as we know it to pursue their own version of what that Life needs to look like, were encouraged to return to the corporate jungle to re-vegetate and re-establish the equilibrium?

Replacing women with men will not be the entire answer, we know that. But to keep doing things as we have always done them will not rectify the straining issues right now either. At least the conversation has started…

Hazel Hawke’s Vital Role in Bob Hawke’s Success…

theEmother — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:16:43 +0000

I was really pleased to see this article in TheAge this morning. Not only does it give another side to the “love story”, it also shows Hazel to be a prime example of an entrepreneurial mother, even when in a relationship. She did amazing things with the opportunities she had, and that’s all one can DO. Hats off to Hazel…

…It did not take long for Hazel to develop a following of her own – which in subsequent elections became a major reason voters supported Hawke. Hazel’s speech to the National Press Gallery in January 1984 established her as an unassuming, disarmingly honest, sincere and intelligent human being – an ordinary woman, one we could all identify with and admire for the way she handled herself.

There was a strong feeling among women that if Hazel stayed with Bob, he couldn’t be as bad as reports suggested.

In an interview on Sunday following the telemovie, Hawke struggled to remember what Hazel’s interests were as the prime minister’s wife. He came up with ”education”, but he could not remember any details.

Children, their welfare and the arts were Hazel’s priorities. Among other organisations, the Brotherhood of St Laurence, Austcare, the Australian Youth Orchestra, the NSW Heritage Council, World Wide Fund for Nature and the Australian Children’s Television Foundation had Hazel’s support. This meant she worked for them; she was not just a figurehead… keep reading