I know it’s Mother’s Day but I wanted to share this picture of my kids and their father because he does so much of what we see often think of as “mothering” – the care and feeding of others. In his case, it’s the lion’s share of the childcare, as it evolved from infant and toddler care to adolescent care and (the hardest) teenage care, all of the cooking and the laundry and most of the errands. I know he is not the only one.
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I recently had the chance to be a guest on the “Great Women in Compliance” podcast, hosted by Lisa Fine of Pearson and Mary Shirley of Fresenius Medical. We talked about the founding and growth of the Cybersecurity Law Report and the Anti-Corruption Report, trends in data privacy, cybersecurity and anti-corruption compliance and the challenges of being a woman in the workplace, like being aggressive without being called shrill, the assumption that you take care of the children, and a requirement that you wear heels to court (yes that still exists!).
The Apple podcast is available here or search “Great Women in Compliance” on any podcast player.
This post appeared in Role Reboot.
The second woman to occupy 10 Downing Street offered to step down if Parliament passed her latest Brexit plan. Though lawmakers rejected it, Theresa May’s apparent “sweetener” marks the latest instance of female executives rising to power in times of crisis only to shoulder the blame for that crisis itself. The pattern is all too clear.