Feest Isolation Days – 30 July
The results are in! The latest report from Pipeline Women Count 2020 finds that when women work as top executives in companies, or where at least one third of the bosses are women, there is a profit margin more than ten times greater than firms that don’t have that many women at the top. Now, of all the arguments I have ever heard for equality, this one might actually hit the nail on the head for those men who still seem reluctant to support and work with women. Of 350 large companies in London, only fourteen are actually led by women. Someone should tell the dinosaurs running these businesses that having women involved means the company can better understand and provide for their customers. In the largest 100 London companies, the total number of female chief executives is the same as the number of bosses named Peter – six. Priceless.
Did anyone see the results of the countries who are doing best with Covid? Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand, Angela Merkel in Germany and Tsai Ing-wen in Taiwan. If you have time to read it, there is a research paper by two UK social scientists who have done a brilliant job on setting out the issues of women leaders, and why they are doing better (and they are!) at dealing with the pandemic.
The women have it more under control for all sorts of reasons…
Here in Britain, there are very few women in cabinet. And the government hasn’t quite got their covid response right have they?
We are currently watching Mrs. America staring Cate Blanchett (BBC Two). The story is about the ERA (equal rights amendment) in the US and the women who stopped Equal Rights becoming the 27th amendment of the Constitution. As this was a period of herstory (history ….see how easy that is to do!) when I lived in the States, I knew these characters. MS magazine was something I always avidly read, and I campaigned for McGovern the Democratic Presidential candidate. A good, though painful slice of her story (twice!) history.
Good guys help women and treat them as equals. Sensible men include women and listen to what they have to say.
Covid is worse for men than women according to the statistics. Some of the reason for that is that men tend to engage in more risky behaviour, don’t socially distance in the same ways, and don’t take their symptoms as seriously. Not the men I hang out with I must say!
Women all over the world live longer than men. In what is still an unequal world for many there have to be some built in advantages to being born female. I can think of a few more. Can you?
With love,
Kathy x