1. An excessive workload.
2. Concerns about management’s ability to lead the company forward successfully.
3. Anxiety about the future, particularly long-term job, income and retirement security.
4. Lack of challenge in their work, with boredom intensifying existing frustration about workload.
5. Insufficient recognition for the level of contribution and effort provided, and concerns that pay isn’t commensurate with performance.
If someone were to conduct a “Women’s Individual Capacity-Building” study and substitute the title of the study to read:
“Five potential causes of some women’s lack of confidence and low self-esteem…”
Some of the possible reasons might be –
1. Over-reliance on others to affirm who she is and should be as an individual in her current reality instead of looking herself in the mirror every day and reminding herself that she is beautifully and wonderfully made to make a positive difference everywhere she goes.
2. Over-scheduling and over-committing herself to participate in events and activities because she has not yet learned how to gracefully say “No,” or bow out when the lever reaches “Overload.”
3. Under-utilization of her natural and acquired talents, gifts, and abilities because she’s confused “playing the societal game” with “being silent and just going along with whatever comes her way in life with the hopes that everyone will simply grow to like her.”
4. Under-representation and lack of acceptance and recognition in the environments in which she frequents because she has allowed herself to believe that being a self-advocate who has developed the savvy and know-how to effectively promote, market, and “sell” herself is really a way of showing vanity, conceit, and narcissism.
5. Over-analyzing, over-thinking, over-worrying, and being overly-anxious about things she can’t control; and underestimating her capacity and ability to help “management” lead by providing those individuals with elements of her own leadership that are developed and strong enough to move mountains if called for.
What are your thoughts about other potential reasons for such a study regarding women's capacity-building? Please share them with us.
Celebrating Women’s History Month…building self-capacity to make things happen!
Sharon M. Biggs, M.A., is a wife, mother, and 21st Century educational leader who serves as Co-Chair & President of Lifeline Foundation, Inc. This 24-year educator is also Founder, Editor, and Chief Writer of LifelineExtensions.blog. View Sharon's other published works at http://www.examiner.com/.
"Children are the globe's most precious commodity."
(Terence H. Biggs, Jr. ~ 2009)
