My favorite documentary series on CNN is “Leading Women”. This documentary-series connects you to extraordinary women of our time. These women are the top in their field; they share with us their careers, lives, struggles and ideas. It will air today 10:30am and 5:30pm. For those that will miss the morning session, you have no reason to miss it.
Back to the issue at hand, CNN is not paying me for this advertisement. To be honest, I think the women of my generation need a whole lot nudging in the right direction. Something that caught my attention is that most of the women featured on the docu-series are between ages 50-75 which leave me wondering, “will their generation find a lady in my generation worthy of the leadership mantle?”
The answer is YES, after all women are going nowhere and some of us have to be leaders, innovators and influencers (Like me). However, we need to work on our perception about life and how we see ourselves as women.
1. Over Dependent: we need to stop depending on people for our own needs. My boss once said, “Most women don’t know how to treat themselves to a good outing. When they are hanging out it’s either paid for or they are hitching along with someone”. I must say I agree with him, don’t be reliant on anybody. The world is waiting for you to be independent. Don’t expect others to do for you what you can’t do for yourself.
2. Too much sex: I recently read an article according to Toke Makinwa vlog, on how this generation is having too much sex and I believe her, too much of everything is not good. With the whole sex image flashing wherever you turn to, internet, TV screen, billboards, and the music you listen to are all selling sex. I can’t help but pity the next generation of leading women, it is not just engaging in it, but also priding yourself as a sex symbol and making the word ‘sexy’ a new norm. For example, if you don’t show off a little cleavage or skin you are not sexy enough, or hey your hair do is very sexy (do you get my point) we need to wake up.
3. Imitators of vain things: Now most ladies lose their personality to women they call role models. If you have decided to alter your look and personality to look like someone else, who then will look up to you? We have forgotten about what truly matters to us, so we are all out chasing and imitating the lives of people that won’t build us up. Wake Up!
4. Laziness: why is it most of the time you ask a lady what she’s doing, she says “nothing” or “I’m just lying down”. The busy doing nothing lady will tell you she is surfing the internet, but the truth is that she is going through the internet checking up fashion styles and she is too busy to read the articles. You can’t lead if you are not hard working, proffer solutions to problems around you, be a think tank and be indispensable.
5. Don’t believe what you were told:don’t believe the notion that women are the weaker sex. My favorite female comic character of all time is wonder woman. She gives superman a run for his strength; she’s a fierce Amazon warrior and has a brute strength like no other. I want you to know that you can do everything you think of. It’s just in the mind; you just have to believe in yourself .Take up your role as a strong woman.
6. Not Supportive: an MC once said, the reason Nigeria won’t have a female president is because we don’t support ourselves. We ladies are good in running each other down. We are not good supporters of girl power. That is why in the office, whenever there is a rumor about a lady flirting around town with men, it starts from a female colleague, simply because the rumor instigator don’t like the hand bag of the lady. We should rally around ourselves and be our own very best role models. Give a shoulder for a lady to lean on for support. Don’t see a lady like you as a competitor because the sky is large enough for all of us.
SEE YOU AT THE TOP.
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