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Calling all the smart, bright women on Motivating Mum!
Following many conversations with like-minded women - we are putting a thinkpiece together to understand where the women we were at school and university with, and started our careers with actually are now and how they feel about where they are.
Our backgrounds are research and journalism, and having worked in the communications industry for years, it constantly baffles us that so many women have 'gone missing'. We know they're somewhere - we just don't know where, because they aren't, generally, sitting on the boards of FTSE100 companies, but nor are they all sitting in coffee shops living off their husbands.
With so many conversations abounding about women in the boardroom, stay-at-home mums and how maternity rights are affecting women's careers, we think that it often seems as if the only people who don't share their opinions are the women themselves.
In order to understand this better, we have created a blogsite and a survey (links below). I wondered if there is any way of sharing the survey more broadly. Our emerging hypothesis is that many, many bright women want to work. It's just that the conventions around traditional corporate environments no longer work for them - whether or not they have children. We believe that the future for many women will be in an environment they create for themselves - a business, a partnership, or volunteering. So we are particularly interested in understanding more about women who are taking the plunge, and doing things for themselves.
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