Women Creating Success Their Way

Men in our society view themselves as successful when they hold a high position, get a great paycheck and have material possessions they can show off. The single woman has different aspirations.

Whether never married or married and divorced we find these women happy without a man and spending time doing what they want and what fills up their life purpose, which is often not about a man or children at all.

In fact, in our society if a career is important to a woman she typically will not be married. This is the case for example at Glaxo Smith Kline, where more than half the women in senior management positions are single. It's the same situation at major companies like Unilever, Novartis, PICIC and Shell. And these figures do not include divorcees, just women who were never married.

What does this mean? It means in our society to hold a powerful leadership role a woman who holds a demanding career doesn’t also juggle a family and husband. It appears this is a choice that a woman makes.

Women are seeking to contribute to society through their work and feel to be successful in a corporate position they need to focus on late hours, stress, and being one of the “boys”.
In 2003, Fortune magazine ran a feature story called 'Power: Do women really want it?' Time Magazine also had a story that year called “The case for staying at home: why more young moms are opting out of the rat race.” What showed up clearly in these articles is that if/when these women decided to be married or to have children they didn’t get the feeling of self-worth from their jobs any longer. Instead, they got this need satisfied by being at home. Additional articles appeared in the New York Times, Business Week, Fortune, Newsweek and Fast Company saying that women chose to leave top leadership positions when they decide to marry and have children.

There seems to be a trade off that women feel about holding a job they consider important and valuable and being married and raising a family. I propose a solution so that women can feel successful whether married or single. Living the life you want doesn’t need to depend on your marital status or job title. Work is an extension of who you are and you can be happy with a man, with a baby or just with yourself. They key, in my experience is for women to find a career that brings them great joy and passion and that is part of their life purpose. If they want to have a family or get married, that career should allow them to do that and not drain their hours and energy.

Many women are becoming Life and Business Coaches using their natural skills and talents as well as work experience. These women work from home or at a client’s site and get paid between $100-$500 per hour. They get to do the work they love, using their natural talents and improving the lives of others, while making great money. This means they can work fewer hours, balance what is important to them, like relationships, health, fitness, wellness, community, spirituality, hobbies, etc

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Terri Levine
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