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Take care of your health. You cannot deliver a prize-winning performance
with a broken-down body.
• Force the world to look at issues
like: What kind of world are we leaving for our children? Where have leisure,
poetry and caring been banished? Why has the door been shut on the smiles and
joy of our children? Why do we have no time for our friends or small acts of
kindness? Why are deadlines so terrible that they extract death as the price?
None of us would mind dying for great causes, but to diefor a power-point
presentation, seems slightly frivolous.
• Do not get stereotyped into how others
see your role: as a mother or an all forgiving rescuer in the workplace.
Encourage men to discover their so-called feminine qualities of sensitivity and
caring. Do not
stereotype men!
• Affirm women who are role models
instead of trying to find chinks in their armour. Network with them. There is a
queen-bee complex, which causes successful women managers to surround
themselves
with male managers and discourage the
entry of women. Identify this and speak up when required.
• There are points in a woman’s
life-cycle when her intensive physical presence is needed. There are high
priority interactions which cannot be delegated. Build a support system with
family, household staff, neighbours and friends to help you enjoy these times.
Men too have been deprived of active participation in these peak experiences in
the past. Make your company recognise and
respond to these realities.
• Hitch your wagon to the pursuit of
daily and consistent learning. Be Saraswati. Bring your heritage of creating
wholeness from leftovers, and wealth from waste. Be Lakshmi. Call forth the
courage to speak, write and act for what is true and good for all. Be Shakti.
Be all woman. Be all human. Celebrate the fact that you a woman.
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