2009/07/31
2009/07/24
Personlig branding ifølge Rigmor Zobel Ravn
Rigmor har en cand. jur. fra Københavns Universitet og henholdsvis en YMP og IMP fra INSEAD. I en alder af 40 år har Rigmor adskillige chefposter bag sig. Hendes CV rummer blandt andet Underdirektør hos Codan Forsikring, Adm. Direktør i Rapp Collins/DDB og Director hos Deloitte Business Consulting. Herudover sidder Rigmor på 3 bestyrelsesposter i henholdsvis Compass, Integral A/S og RUC.
Rigmor Zobel lægger vægt på, at man ikke kan dele mænd og kvinder i to kategorier og derefter generalisere. Hendes argument er logisk og ikke synderlig nyskabende. Arbejdsmarkedet består af ca. 50% kvinder der er blevet skolet og har erfaring på lige fod med mænd, derfor burde der være både kvinder og mænd repræsenteret i de danske bestyrelser. Dette er desværre ikke tilfældet, der er alt for få kvinder som når bestyrelseslokalet. Rigmor Zobel mener forenklet sagt at kvinderne er for lidt ambitiøse og derfor ikke går efter bestyrelsesposter. Det handler om at skabe opmærksomhed om sig selv og sine kvalifikationer. Der eksisterer ingen jobopslag, du skal selv skabe muligheden, og gøre dit netværk opmærksom på at du har interesse i bestyrelsesarbejde, fortsætter Rigmor Zobel. Når den succesfulde erhvervskvinde skal give hendes besyv med om hvordan man når titlen som bestyrelsesmedlem, lyder det således; ”Du bliver nødt til at fortælle folk, hvad det er, de skal vide om dig. Det duer ikke at sidde på sin stol og tro, at folk ved, hvad man kan og vil, hvis du vil realisere dine erhvervsmæssige målsætninger.”
Handler det kort om godt om, at kvinder ikke formår at selviscenesætte sig selv?
Læs hele artiklen fra business.dk her.
Female Navigators tager ”Kvinder i bestyrelser” op til debat d. 30 september på Copenhagen Business School. Nærmere invitation og tilmelding vil følge primo august.
Rikke Nørgaard
FEMALE NAVIGATORS
Rigmor Zobel lægger vægt på, at man ikke kan dele mænd og kvinder i to kategorier og derefter generalisere. Hendes argument er logisk og ikke synderlig nyskabende. Arbejdsmarkedet består af ca. 50% kvinder der er blevet skolet og har erfaring på lige fod med mænd, derfor burde der være både kvinder og mænd repræsenteret i de danske bestyrelser. Dette er desværre ikke tilfældet, der er alt for få kvinder som når bestyrelseslokalet. Rigmor Zobel mener forenklet sagt at kvinderne er for lidt ambitiøse og derfor ikke går efter bestyrelsesposter. Det handler om at skabe opmærksomhed om sig selv og sine kvalifikationer. Der eksisterer ingen jobopslag, du skal selv skabe muligheden, og gøre dit netværk opmærksom på at du har interesse i bestyrelsesarbejde, fortsætter Rigmor Zobel. Når den succesfulde erhvervskvinde skal give hendes besyv med om hvordan man når titlen som bestyrelsesmedlem, lyder det således; ”Du bliver nødt til at fortælle folk, hvad det er, de skal vide om dig. Det duer ikke at sidde på sin stol og tro, at folk ved, hvad man kan og vil, hvis du vil realisere dine erhvervsmæssige målsætninger.”
Handler det kort om godt om, at kvinder ikke formår at selviscenesætte sig selv?
Læs hele artiklen fra business.dk her.
Female Navigators tager ”Kvinder i bestyrelser” op til debat d. 30 september på Copenhagen Business School. Nærmere invitation og tilmelding vil følge primo august.
Rikke Nørgaard
FEMALE NAVIGATORS
2009/07/18
It is okay to be a feminist, “if you can argue for it”
Several months and countries ago, I met a female medicine student at a small and random Friday bash. Conversation was slow which led me to address this very same student, whom I had just met for the first time, that “I had heard much about her”. Some may call it casual North American politeness and a much needed ice-breaker as the gin and tonic I was drinking would prove itself not to be strong enough for this particular rendezvous.
The female looked at me and my “nice to meet you” remark and felt the need to counter with a less traditional “I’ve heard that you are the world’s biggest feminist”.
Now, being a female navigator – an equal opportunities advocate – has given me certain experience with discussing the term “feminism”. A wise man once said, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. So does the much debated and misinterpreted word feminism.
So, what does one respond to such a statement on a Friday around midnight? You can do what I did and lie. Saying “No, I am not” thereby gives you two possibilities.
1) You can continue to zip on your G&T and notice that her rude attitude comes with a grin.
Or…
2) Kindly ask her which one of the 13 academically accredited forms of feminism she is referring to.
As I decided to try to be diplomatic, I simultaneously zipped my mouth while zipping on my G&T. She paused and then continued...
-“Listen, it is okay to be a feminist - if you can argue for it”.
My first reaction was ‘you have got to be kidding me’. As I looked at her, I saw the seriousness in her eyes and decided to turn the other cheek. An eye for an eye would only make this party go blind.
Over a half a year later, I sit here, pondering upon the raison d’etre behind her remark. Even if her comment was an attempt to be provocative, I think that the belief that ‘feminism is something negative’ is shared by many others.
-Is the “You’re a big feminist” the new “You suck”?
No matter what, who does not believe in equal opportunities? Well, bad phrasing, I can actually think of many, but in a society like Denmark I assumed that we left hostility to Pia Kjaersgaard. How can equal rights not be important?
I understand that she does not know the differences the first and second wave of feminism made for women in the world. She studied physics, molecules and diseases. Excellent! But with her being in the field of medicine, how could she not recognize for instance the difference women’s right to contraception makes - or even better - stand up for this. When will women and men recognize that empowering women strengthens the economy? Do your research, party people!
So standing there, nine months or something ago, I realized one thing - standing up for women on a blog, at school, amongst your friends, at work or through projects - is something you are expected to argue for. Making a difference is appearently debatable. Unfortunately, the only problem about arguing with idiots is that you have to get down on their level in order for them to understand. So I remain here, on female navigators’ blog, wondering what they teach people in med. school nowadays?
/Sophie Nelson
The female looked at me and my “nice to meet you” remark and felt the need to counter with a less traditional “I’ve heard that you are the world’s biggest feminist”.
Now, being a female navigator – an equal opportunities advocate – has given me certain experience with discussing the term “feminism”. A wise man once said, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. So does the much debated and misinterpreted word feminism.
So, what does one respond to such a statement on a Friday around midnight? You can do what I did and lie. Saying “No, I am not” thereby gives you two possibilities.
1) You can continue to zip on your G&T and notice that her rude attitude comes with a grin.
Or…
2) Kindly ask her which one of the 13 academically accredited forms of feminism she is referring to.
As I decided to try to be diplomatic, I simultaneously zipped my mouth while zipping on my G&T. She paused and then continued...
-“Listen, it is okay to be a feminist - if you can argue for it”.
My first reaction was ‘you have got to be kidding me’. As I looked at her, I saw the seriousness in her eyes and decided to turn the other cheek. An eye for an eye would only make this party go blind.
Over a half a year later, I sit here, pondering upon the raison d’etre behind her remark. Even if her comment was an attempt to be provocative, I think that the belief that ‘feminism is something negative’ is shared by many others.
-Is the “You’re a big feminist” the new “You suck”?
No matter what, who does not believe in equal opportunities? Well, bad phrasing, I can actually think of many, but in a society like Denmark I assumed that we left hostility to Pia Kjaersgaard. How can equal rights not be important?
I understand that she does not know the differences the first and second wave of feminism made for women in the world. She studied physics, molecules and diseases. Excellent! But with her being in the field of medicine, how could she not recognize for instance the difference women’s right to contraception makes - or even better - stand up for this. When will women and men recognize that empowering women strengthens the economy? Do your research, party people!
So standing there, nine months or something ago, I realized one thing - standing up for women on a blog, at school, amongst your friends, at work or through projects - is something you are expected to argue for. Making a difference is appearently debatable. Unfortunately, the only problem about arguing with idiots is that you have to get down on their level in order for them to understand. So I remain here, on female navigators’ blog, wondering what they teach people in med. school nowadays?
/Sophie Nelson
2009/07/14
Lone woman among eight men
An article from Saturday’s New York Times features a lengthy interview with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the United States Supreme court, and currently the only female to hold a position in the highest and most powerful legislative institution in the US. Ginsburg offers several insights to what it like to be the only woman in an overly male dominated space.
On the difference between male and female dynamics:
Once Justice O’Connor (The only other woman to have sat on the Supreme Court, now retired) was questioning counsel at oral argument. I thought she was done, so I asked a question, and Sandra said: Just a minute, I’m not finished. So I apologized to her and she said, It’s O.K., Ruth. The guys do it to each other all the time, they step on each other’s questions. And then there appeared an item in USA Today, and the headline was something like“Rude Ruth Interrupts Sandra.”
On Judge Sotomayor’s frank remarks that she is a product of affirmative action:
So am I. I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972, every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because (of the enforcement of) the Nixon government contract program. Every university had a contract, and Stan Pottinger, head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, would go around and ask, How are you doing on your affirmative-action plan? William McGill, who was then the president of Columbia, was asked by a reporter: How is Columbia doing with its affirmative action? He said, It’s no mistake that the two most recent appointments to the law school are a woman and an African-American man.
On how to change things:
I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women’s organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man’s world. If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
Mette Mikkelsen
FEMALE NAVIGATORS
On the difference between male and female dynamics:
Once Justice O’Connor (The only other woman to have sat on the Supreme Court, now retired) was questioning counsel at oral argument. I thought she was done, so I asked a question, and Sandra said: Just a minute, I’m not finished. So I apologized to her and she said, It’s O.K., Ruth. The guys do it to each other all the time, they step on each other’s questions. And then there appeared an item in USA Today, and the headline was something like“Rude Ruth Interrupts Sandra.”
On Judge Sotomayor’s frank remarks that she is a product of affirmative action:
So am I. I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972, every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because (of the enforcement of) the Nixon government contract program. Every university had a contract, and Stan Pottinger, head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, would go around and ask, How are you doing on your affirmative-action plan? William McGill, who was then the president of Columbia, was asked by a reporter: How is Columbia doing with its affirmative action? He said, It’s no mistake that the two most recent appointments to the law school are a woman and an African-American man.
On how to change things:
I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women’s organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man’s world. If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
Mette Mikkelsen
FEMALE NAVIGATORS
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