by Christine Marlet | Apr 28, 2026 | All, Female identity, Gender Equality, Women in Entrepreneurship
Céline approaches sales through the prism of direct selling and female empowerment. With exceptional experience – over 10,000 salespeople under her management and sales of up to 450 million euros – she shares a deeply human vision of the profession.
For Murielle, her starting point is philosophical: everything is sales. A conversation, a marriage, a religious conviction – it’s all based on an exchange of values between two people. To understand this is to desacralize and de-dramatize sales.
by Christine Marlet | Apr 25, 2026 | All, Female identity, Gender Equality, Male identity, Work-Life Balance/Integration
I argue that the breadwinner model is not traditional but was a radical invention that was little more than a century old at its peak. It carried within it the very pathologies that now afflict the dual-earner model that succeeded it. If we want to understand why men and women struggle to build genuine partnerships today, we need to go further back than the postwar golden age to really understand what the breadwinner model replaced.
by Christine Marlet | Apr 21, 2026 | All, Fatherhood-Motherhood-Children Education, Female identity, Gender Equality, Male identity, Women in Leadership
The line that feminists neglected motherhood has become the standard entry point for arguments about why feminists shouldn’t neglect motherhood now. Yet mid-to-late twentieth-century feminist work on motherhood and mothering is rich and complex. To view it as failed or inadequate because other feminisms and other priorities became dominant risks replicating the matrophobic dynamics this feminism sought to challenge
by Christine Marlet | Apr 15, 2026 | All, Communication between Women and Men, Gender Equality, Women and Men Collaboration at Work, Women and Men Cooperation at Home
Mallika framed their partnership around three pillars wrapped in a foundation of deep trust:
• Shared values — aligned on what matters most
• A converging vision — not identical, but consistently moving toward the same destination, with room to adapt
• Complementary skills — Michaela is a structured executor and scenario planner; Alex is the visionary idea generator
by Christine Marlet | Apr 8, 2026 | All, Gender Equality, Women in Entrepreneurship, Women in Leadership, Women Input in STEM
Over the past five articles, this series has explored what the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report makes visible — and what it leaves largely unexamined — when read through the lived reality of women in leadership. Taken together, the insights from the five articles form a coherent picture of where leadership systems are holding — and where they are quietly failing.
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