I want to look back my topic.
My topic was how women success as leaders.
I chose five women CEOs of famous companies in the U.S., and found out three features all they have in common: education, family, and experience.
1. Education
They all graduated from university.
For example, Meg Whitman, CEO of HP, graduated from Princeton University and while working at company she went to Harvard University and got MBA.
For another example, Indra Nooyi, CEO of Pepsi. Co, graduated from two colleges in India and while working, she got master degrees in Public Policy at Yale School of management.
I told you that all of you have chance to become CEO of famous companies in the U.S. like Nooyi!
2. Family
All of them are married and four of them have children.
I thought having family is interrupting for women to pursue their careers, but surprisingly, this is not true for the five CEOs..
They manage their time by making list of priority and also get support from their families by getting them understand what mothers are doing.
3. Experience
All of them experienced being in leading post either in companies they are managing now, or in other companies..
It was interesting that Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!, had worked for Google and created a lot of great tools on Google browser!
Moreover, Meg Whitman actually had worked at six companies including Walt Disney's Company!
On contrary, Virginia Rometty has worked for IBM for her entire business life. Mary Barra has too.
So...these are the common features they have.
And I showed you a list of the rate of women senior executives.
The top is China. Some of you noticed that there are a lot of Asian countries....why?
I found someone answer to this question.
"The pioneer economies where economic growth is high have greater diversity in their senior management teams. Women are playing a major role in driving the businesses’ growth, bringing balance to the decision making process and the smooth running of their companies,"
(http://www.cfoinnovation.com/content/china-ranks-top-women-proportion-senior-management)
I am not sure if this is true, but it is one possible answer that why Asian countries have such a high amount of women senior executives.
Anyway, what I want to emphasize is that creating environment for women to work more:) maybe by changing current system or by encouraging men to participate house chores more and more.
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