ZIPHO SIKHAKHANE: Don't dump the female agenda on the sole woman
“The male leaders in the majority should be encouraging women to appreciate and thrive from that which makes them unique.”
The burden of increasing female representation in senior positions needs to stop being a women-only agenda - in the same manner that topics affecting minority groups are erroneously assigned to individuals from those groups instead of the majority groups that are in a position of influence. In business, the main decision-making power still primarily rests with men. Research shows that less than 5% of businesses globally are led by women, and women fill less than 25% of senior leadership positions. That means the views and decision-making at the top remain biased towards one gender. Merely empowering women to own the "women" agenda is not really helping anyone as those women are not in the position of influence needed to effect impactful change. Worse, in the instances where there is that one woman who has managed to break through the supposed glass ceiling, she is burdened with the responsibility of carrying the women agenda for everyone else and taking on the responsibility of ment...
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