Interesting post about women in the finance industry

[maryjanell79]

Hey all,

Just read this post on how womens role in the finance industry has changed in the past 2 generations.

www.rplan.co.uk/post/1280/women-in-finance-the-past-50-years

I think we have come a long way. Especially those who can juggle high powered jobs and a family! (Hats off to them as that is no small task!)
However I get the feeling we still have a long way to go in the finance industry.

What is everyone elses thoughts on this post?

Xenia starts from the presumption that Xenia is right.
So,in this instance,she earns a lot so it is right and good to her that everyone else earns a lot.
And she struggles to understand how others cant earn a lot.

One thing that occurred to me last night as I walked back in from my paid career (at 545pm having been working at it since 730am that morning) to my other full time career of looking after a family (I'm a single parent so it is a career that is exclusively mine!), exhausted and ready to do a whole evening's work of cooking/ mothering/ cleaning etc etc (before sitting down to work some more hours at my paid career before bedtime) is that it is so very annoying that I have to have two careers/jobs. Why can't I just have one? If I could just choose to do one of my careers, it would be the family one because that is the one I love doing and which I find most rewarding, just like Xenia has chosen to do just one in the sense that she does a more than full time paid job in the finance sector but employs other people to do much of the tasks associated with her family (which is, of course, her decision and fine.) Luckily for Xenia, the one she likes to do the best and which she has chosen (her job in the finance sector) is also the one that pays the most money. So why can't I choose the job that I like the best (ie looking after my family) and be paid to do that one? Is it because, looking after children, bringing up the next generation is not seen as all that important in our society compared to banking?

I would just like to be able to do one career at a time!

Yes, anyone can do it - cloeaing ,childcare so it is very low paid the world over and always will be and most people want to delegate it when they get the chance at least some of the time.

I dispute that working parents like I am contract all of family life though. The reason things are easy for me now is my youngest has started shaving ie they are older. It used to be very full on for both of us when we got home from work as it is for all working parents and all day for those at home. I said lovd a few hours a day with the children and I do so I think that is why most men and increasinly most women pick the option where they have a balanced life - the having it all - where theywork and they have families rather than just work but never have chidlren or just stay at home looking after small children.

As for it's not fair XYZ life just isn't like that. Things aren't always fair and as we don't live in a communist system or a country where you only have childreni f you're married nad are married for life (although many cultures do impose that norm) then you are going to be saddled with care of children and work in most cases.

And I just put the drier. My day is like that of most full time working parents reasonably full of domestic tasks too.

Hmmm I can earn money and do as I like so it doesnt matter that other peoples lives arent fair.....