Last night I was out to dinner with a few male colleagues who own businesses. I turned to Richard, one of the entrepreneurs I was with, and asked him, “where are all the women?”
“You know Hil,” he says to me, “most women if given the choice and the right situation would prefer to stay home and raise the kids.”
“I don’t understand,” I said. “Women have been fighting for equal rights for so many years now and you would think at this point we would take equal responsibility in raising the kids.”
“Yeah, but it’s not that way,” he said. “They don’t want to work.”
I thought about that on the car ride home. Do most women choose not to work after they have kids? Am I the odd one out? I don’t know about you, but since I spent so much time in college and then getting my master’s, I wanted to stick with my career… Do most women want to throw that away and start again after their kids are grown?
It’s amazing that in this day and age, the entrepreneur group that I am involved with has barely 20 or so women out of 240 members. And, every time I play golf, I’m always outnumbered by men.
Hmmmm…. Makes you think…
