a take on Equal Pay, Leadership, Pay Equity and Women at the Top

Behind Fortune’s Most Powerful Women

Q: Is that partly because women don’t want the top jobs?
A: Absolutely. Glass ceilings may or may not exist in 50 years, but there will still not be parity, because women think differently about power. They’re reinventing it; they want to spread it around and be collaborative. I also think that men get off on being a Fortune 500 CEO more than women do. It’s not the same thrill. Take [former eBay (EBAY) CEO] Meg Whitman. She wants to change the world, as a lot of Silicon Valley women do. Her identity was less about being a CEO. Now she’s running for governor of California.

via postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com

Very short Q&A on how women make the Fortune "Most Powerful Women" list and how it is changed since the last decade. Comments to this post are not nice about Meg running for governor, but isn't that exactly the point? We women are run, climb the corporate ladder, become successful mom-preneurs, with different goals and visions than what has become expected.

I applaud Hillary for her tough stand to the end. And if you were watching closely, as the end became apparent, she decided to become herself, not someone's political vision of what she should be. She'll be back. And the glass ceiling needs to leave the conversation.

And if you want to talk about pay equity (it is *never* about equal pay, btw), this will not happen until we begin to lead by example. Our daughters will not learn management and leadership skills unless they see them in action. Neither will our sons. So hire that extra help you've been wishing for, and learn to manage those contractors with all the negotiating that entails, and the next gen will be well on the way to learning to negotiate for equal pay for the same work. Yes, this time it is equal pay.

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