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Female success is multifaceted

2020-03-08T02:22:29.204Z


Yael Itzhaki


We mark International Women's Day today, but instead of celebrating the various and varied ways in which women can express themselves, we expect coverage in the form of a modeling trajectory, on which beautiful, shapely women strive for an unrealized beauty ideal. This is how women's wives who "conquered the world", broken the glass ceiling and screwed into senior positions usually appear on Women's Day. This repetitive choice every year to put women at the forefront of near-impossible standards makes the rest of the "normal" women feel far less fulfilled.

Aren't there enough strong and brave women who bravely face other worthy challenges? Does a woman working as a teacher, while raising and supporting three children, face fewer challenges and difficulties from a successful CEO? Does a volunteer for a distressed youth need less pride than a senior businesswoman? And why not introduce psychologists, jewelers, nurses, social workers? In these professions is something that gives less pride? Do we all have to accept the narrow and "male" success model of money, power and power? Are the CEO, politician, or businesswoman models the only models of success?

Unfortunately, the rules of the game in the modern working world are still mostly male. It is men who enact unwritten laws but require progress: long, assertive, visible hours of work, social and business networking, and a linear career that take no time to raise children. For women who want to move forward in the male work world, there is nothing left to adapt to the rules of the male game. However, different people, whether men or women, have a different definition of success. Success may be economic and hierarchical by the "masculine" benchmark, but it can also be expressed in an interesting, challenging, fulfilling and fulfilling job, even if it does not meet the rules of the male game. Career is not a competitive sport.

So why put the emphasis on Women's Day only on one type of success, instead of presenting women on this day who define their success in a variety of ways and feelings are provided by their work, and not just women who are "superwomen"? We do not need Women's Day so that we can draw a single path for women to walk in order to feel equal. There is no need for media coverage that showcases women of a certain type, thus effectively eliminating everything else. What we need on this day is to show that there is a lot of face to success, and to encourage every woman to develop in her own way, in accordance with her desires and aspirations.

After all, in the rest of the year, most of the media discourse around women and their interests is saturated with jarring and insulting stereotypes, and in "feminine" content of life style, culinary and diet, as if our whole business is cooking, fashion, home design and birth, compared to men who are interested in current affairs, technology. And economics. Therefore, precisely on Women's Day, all women should be cherished without putting them into molds. Their unique abilities must be celebrated - containment, listening and empathy, lack of judgment, conflict resolution, deep familiarity with the characteristics and needs of the family nucleus, the ability to look at the broad picture and fulfill several tasks at the same time - traits that women are able to apply in any field they choose to pursue.

Dr. Yael Yitzhaki is CEO of Neta - the Center for Career Development

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Source: israelhayom

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