Reasons Why Women Fail in Business and Politics

Well I am sorry to break your heart J, I have always been a cut throat business person who has excelled in quality and name in whatever I did. I have emotion, passion, romance and intelligence and know my finances well too. My nickname amongst people who knew me was Scrooge as I always hid my money and walked around broke. Known for starting up businesses and building product lines and ranges for entrepreneurs.
I live my life in segments, use a different attire for each role I place but keep my basic essence the same, the essence of me.
Moral: Don’t generalise a woman, some of them are unique and different and I am one of them….

Women have less status, at school and at work, because they fail to ask for it.

Men ask for raises and promotions and get them. If women learn the same behavior, they will get the same results.

Also women anticipate taking time off to raise children, they have fewer incentives to work hard in school,

and they choose careers where on-the-job training and long hours are less important.

When it comes to women issues you fail because you judge them from a man’s perspective. You ignore historical factors that have barred women from doing what you claim they do not do.

My Late grandmother was a successful business woman and she had invested in properties and had savings because she came from a culture that permitted women to trade and do other things beside being wives and mothers.

Being emtional is not a bad thing, infact it can be an asset. Men and women process things differently but that does not make one better than the other. Why are most men afraid of a successful or intelligent woman if it is not them that hinder women’s progress??

Things will change after sometime.Historical factors definitely exist.There is truth in your write up,grudgingly I say, but hope for a change.The spade will have another nickname then.

I totally agree with you. Your points make a lot of sense – all of them. Though, some of the comments made me laugh (there were two I think). Speaking of past times is an idiotic thing in this case (well, maybe not for people living in some countries). Even our mothers and grandmothers (at least here in Slovakia and in most of Europe too) were brought up as equals – had right to vote, work, do business, no lesser status at school, etc. Male businessman unwilling to employ women in their forties has nothing to do with those women having no initiative to start their own business or go into politics.
By the way, my mother is skilled in crafts, yet she does not start her own business despite the fact that there is enough money to support her efforts. She is just afraid. Nobody is holding her back except her. She is practically running the family (despite the fact that father makes all the money). Most other women I know think about the same way as my mother does. –> study hard, get a good job or focus on what is certain without risking anything or venturing into unknown territories (and most women I know were good at school, better than most boys (regarding marks, though not logic), yet those boys do successful business much more often).

As for the thing with women not supporting each other (though, they do so inside a group of their friends), there was a nice example during last presidential elections here in Slovakia. Two main candidates were the former president (who is male, and won these elections eventually) and a woman (who is prime minister now, despite the fact that her party landed some 15% behind the winner). Some of my male classmates and friends (some 30+ people in total, up to 10 gave her their votes) voted for her. However, no girl/woman I know voted for her (and these number in some 40+ as most members of my family are women too – all cousins, parents’ siblings, etc.).

By the way, when I saw the title I immediately knew your article will attract those screaming injustice and disagreeing without even giving it a real thought. I just cannot fail to mention one comment I got where some person (probably a woman judging from the name) called me mysoginist (or something like that) adding that she did not even read my article … (and the title was What motivates girls to become prostitutes). Though, I deleted that comment as that person clearly stated she (or he?) did not even read my article and spilled loads of unfounded ideas and accusations= f***ing troll.

Anyway, sorry that I wrote such a long comment.

thanks for sharing

This seems to rest on stereotypes and ignores larger and underlying cultural issues.

I agree with you in some aspects, but not entirely, Silaho. Sorry if I have broken your heart by saying this.

Dear, dear Jimmie, I do hate to break your bubble, but how do you think men ever get to the top if not for the wife giving him confidence, advising him, doing the budgeting and generally keeping everything shipshape so he can go out and do business? For every man who is a success you will find a woman helpmate.

My assistant will respond to your ridiculous little read…

I’m with Ruby here – I think you are painting with a very wide brush of generalization and stereotype. I, personally, have not met many men capable of running a household (let alone a business) without the help of a woman. Even if they are the primary bread-winner, it is the wife (or secretary/assistant) that makes everything work with respect to budget, schedule, etc. The man may be out front, but there is is usually a woman behind the scenes making everything tick. And women scared of math? I dare you to visit the accounting department of any company and see who is there making sure invoices go out and bills are paid. WOMEN! How long would the business last if money isn’t collected for services and bills aren’t paid?

And whether Michal Dorcak wants to admit it or not, historical factors DO figure in. Even here in the US, the “good old boy” network is still very much intact, mostly because of the stereotypes you are perpetuating here.

May be you should write an article on how to separate reason and emotion… I don’t know how people manage to do that..I totally mix up both and mostly it is my emotions that control my actions rather than the reason

hey Jimmy, rather than mentioning most women here, it would be better to say –Some women–. There is a saying – Behind the success of every man, there is a woman.

Those days are gone, where women were shy and timid. The women of today are smart, bold, beautiful and intelligent. It is WE who rule the world

True, but some women are more emotional than others. The problem is that men are the ones that excel in certain fields more than women. There are a lot of women haters and this is true. They will do anything and everything to put another woman in both their personal and professional lives. Not all women are bad in math. I happen to be very good in math.