There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
Interpretation
Women are capable leaders and must be included in positions of power without excuses.
This quote emphasizes the importance of including women in leadership roles and decision-making circles, highlighting that qualified women exist in abundance and are prepared to take on these responsibilities. It calls for an end to excuses that prevent their advancement and stresses the necessity of actively seeking out and empowering women leaders in various sectors.
In practice
In a speech at a women's conference, this quote could be used to inspire attendees to advocate for women's inclusion in leadership roles.
It's time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of 'qualified.' The best man for the job, may in fact, be a woman, whose biography is not traditional, but is rich with experiences and skills that are not necessarily learned either in school or on the job.
It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.
When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.
Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.
I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for us to further improve our work and make further progress.
They say not everyone can be MGR. I agree. MGR is a revolutionary. Not in a 1,000 years can there be another MGR. If anyone says he will be the next MGR, he is insane. But I have the confidence that I can give the government that MGR gave to the people of Tamil Nadu.
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.
Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.
We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to leadership.
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