“The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.”
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For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.
It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.
So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.
Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.
