by Christine Marlet | Feb 9, 2026 | All, Female identity, Gender Equality, Women in Entrepreneurship, Women in Leadership
This final piece turns to a dimension that is both deeply personal and systemically revealing: health, sustainability, and the cost of leadership itself.
The report contains a signal that is easy to overlook. While most gender parity indicators show gradual improvement, health and survival is the only subindex that has declined since 2006.
This matters more than it appears to.
Because progress that erodes health is not progress. It is extraction under a different name.
by Christine Marlet | Dec 29, 2025 | All, Female identity, Gender Equality, Women in Entrepreneurship, Women in Leadership
Traditional leadership systems were never designed around women’s relational intelligence, cyclical energy, or embodied decision-making. Success inside those systems often required careful calibration: being reliable, measured, agreeable at the right moments, strong but not too strong. Over time, many women learned how to succeed by adjusting themselves — often without noticing the cost.
by Christine Marlet | Dec 28, 2025 | All, Fatherhood-Motherhood-Children Education, Female identity, Women and Men Cooperation at Home, Work-Life Balance/Integration
In my work as a life consultant, I often speak with professional women who have recently married and become mothers. Particularly in the early years of raising children, it’s not unusual for these highly educated, successful women to find themselves challenged by the new burdens of domesticity.
by Christine Marlet | Dec 10, 2025 | All, Fatherhood-Motherhood-Children Education, Female identity, Gender Equality, Women in Leadership, Work-Life Balance/Integration
This webinar represents a powerful testimony of individual and organizational transformation. Marleny Gil and Lorena Saavedra not only shared their stories of personal overcoming in the face of structural, cultural and social barriers, but they articulated a clear vision of how the mining industry can and should evolve.
by Christine Marlet | Dec 3, 2025 | All, Fatherhood-Motherhood-Children Education, Female identity, Gender Equality, Male identity
The conflation of selfhood with professional identity and self-worth with productivity and ambition is, of course, why stay-at-home motherhood is regarded as such a lowly vocation. At home, there’s no remuneration for services rendered or ladder to climb, nor is there much external validation. To be a stay-at-home mother is, therefore, to step outside of the productivity paradigm entirely, “to [fall] off the edge of the working world,” in the words of Mary Harrington.
by Christine Marlet | Sep 17, 2025 | All, Fatherhood-Motherhood-Children Education, Female identity, Work-Life Balance/Integration
The psychological fragility associated with the perinatal period is a fact of both individual and collective life. The short-term consequences of inadequate care for these frailties have repercussions for society as a whole. In short, it’s high time to make the mental health of expectant and new mothers an urgent public health priority.
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