Female Entrepreneurs Face Unique Issues
U.S. News Senior Editor and blogger Justin Ewers today tackles the topic of what unique challenges female entrepreneurs face, as only 3 percent of the 10.4 million American businesses headed by women generate more than $1 million in sales each year. Ewers writes the blog "America's Business" and covers small business, Silicon Valley, and executive management.
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The New M.B.A. Rhetoric
The New M.B.A. Rhetoric coming out of women's mouths in 2008 is the antithesis to a positive mentoring plan. A woman cannot be both competitive and cooperative; one of the two loses.
I have written an extensive article about this at my website: www.thenewtnwoman.com
I agree with Laura Liswood, the Secretary General of the Council of Women World Leaders, that there isn't a glass ceiling "but a thick wall of men," but I'd add, "a wall that has recently be surfaced with an impenatrable, plasticized wallpaper of women who have bought into the NEW M.B.A. rhetoric" which staunchly defends the status quo. That status quo believes that there aren't more female entrepreneurs because women are "too cooperative. and inclusive."
Anne Jardim was recently quoted in Conde Nast Portfolio in April 2008 as saying: "Men--AND ANYONE WHO SUCCEEDS--comes to this (entrepreneurism) as a hierarchical struggle.....In a hospital, for example, there is NO ROOM for egalitarianism." The FEMALE Conde Nast report on SEXISM concludes with "Women taking pride in their AUTHORITY....maybe that's the only thing missing."
It has been proven by a recent survey published by the Girls Scouts of America, that girls don't want to lead in the same way as men; they're turned off by the conventional conception of leadership as command and control.
The truth is: all of our current woes--a credit crisis, a mortgage crisis, U.S. wars (plural)--all stem from the mannish belief of "winner take all."
The truth is: We don't need any more women climbing the hill, claiming it as their own, and telling other women: I've got mine; you get yours."
The truth is: Girls Scouts appear to have figured out the core truth that women don't want to be turned into men.
The truth is: This New M.B.A. rhetoric isn't good for a family, city, state, nation or the entire world when extrapolated beyond the boardroom. It's pure rubbish.
My hope is that the NEXT generation, which is obviously more clearheaded than its predecessors, kill and bury the New M.B.A. rhetoric where it can never be found again to harm women.
Sincerely,
Rosanne Ferreri-Feske, CEO, The New Tennessee Woman
http://www.thenewtnwoman.com
615-595-6380
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