Work-life integration isn’t balance. It’s design. Conscious design of priorities, boundaries, agreements, and structures. And like all good design, it requires intention, context, and above all, the right conditions to be implemented
Still, today, I do see in many women—even women with much worldly success—this same distrust of one’s own powers and paralysis of one’s own energies. And, dare I say, I think it hails from similar quarters: a cultural sense of the inferiority of woman qua woman.
The new masculinity is an alternative way of being a man compared to traditional models: more self-aware, more committed to shared responsibility, and more open to care, dialogue, and equality.
Mentorship helps people grow. Sponsorship brings influence to bear on opportunity. Leadership investment becomes more meaningful when an organisation can see how both operate, and can account for who gains access to the work through which future leaders become known.
There are more newborns who have mothers with bachelor’s degrees as their highest credential than infants who have fathers with the same highest degrees. Having a college-educated mother benefits a child in terms of family stability, freedom from want, and academic achievement.
The more we pretend that fathers are the same as mothers, the more we damage the relationship between men and women.
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