Reflections on the Glass Ceiling

One of the arguments of hate, most used by feminism, to incite its followers, is to make them believe that there is intrinsic discrimination against women, to which they must react with indignation and violence, and with that they already have them. Under their control, hatred is fundamental in these types of movements.

Its theoretical foundation is the fact that very few women hold management positions, although of course, this is only apparent, there are many companies whose owners are women, and to give a concrete example, the Corona Group, under the leadership of Miss Aramburu, who is also the richest woman in Mexico, and this is not a unique case, many owners tend to inherit equally to their sons or daughters, and many times, their fortunes fall into the hands of women, even if they are not their relatives. , such as the Benson or Bracht Companies.

But being an owner requires exhausting skill and management capacity, it is not easy to be one, not everyone has that feeling, it is not unusual for the heir of a great businessman to have neither the taste nor the interest, so many owners, leave their companies in the hands of others, or simply their heirs bankrupt or sell them, which would deserve an article in itself, but the essence is that there are both women and men in the highest position of a company, and in my experience , the generation of the 50s and 60s, preferred their daughters.

In the next range are the management positions, which indeed have many more men, but it is not a question of discrimination, but rather a work fact, men and women have a very different biology and behavior in the company, a fifth Variable to the famous lyrics of Adizes, the reason, simple, is that they have different ways of thinking and acting, but above all, they have different motivations.

A man lives to work, that is his social function, what motivates him to work, make an effort and spend hours in the company, is that he does it for his children, for his wife, every extra hour is extra salary or the possibility To advance, work for love, and that is the best reason, (of course I am focused on the best, because I am talking about the highest positions), on the negative side, spending 18 hours in the company has a negative effect on your family, something that many consider in the difficult decision of being with their children or buying things for them, finally, there is the biological question, a man tends to resist physical effort better, so in positions that require it, women are usually in disadvantage.

On the other hand, with women things are not so simple, their motivation has a marked dividing line: before pregnancy, they are willing to make the same efforts as men and give their work 100%, but afterward, No, the reasons are biological and emotional, a baby physiologically needs its mother, it is not unusual for a woman to have to make a very difficult decision, my baby or my job, and it is very, very common that the more responsible she is, As a worker, she ends up deciding that her main responsibility, be it as a mother and leaves her job, or only works part time, stops being committed to the company and her motivation drops to 50%. If before she stayed until she finished, now she strictly adheres to it. to the schedule, for all practical purposes, derails their career, something that men do not usually do, this was the reason, why many companies did not hire women, particularly if the training was expensive, because they would only last a short time in the company, while men tended to stay for life.

As I said before, the man has a benign motivation, he does it for his loved ones, but in the case of the woman, there are a couple of reasons, if she has children, she will do it for them, but maintaining the balance between work and family is not It's easy, it ends up wearing them down and they tend to get much more Stress, as the old saying goes: "he who serves two masters", can never be focused on the company's objectives, leaves for family matters are very frequent, which It does not make her eligible for promotions, and many women are happy that way, they tend to spend forever in a stable position that does not require much commitment, that makes them excellent administrators, so much so that sometimes they tend to become bureaucratized.

The second reason is much more complicated, when they do not have children and work only for themselves, this usually has strong consequences, on the one hand, their personality belongs to the selfish side, which causes them to be unempathetic as bosses, being especially cruel to her subordinates, on the other hand, her character becomes bitter, causing a bad work environment, as many women know, the worst boss is this type of woman, who finds no more reason to live, who obtains all social validation from her work, These types of attitudes of first me, then me and last me, usually cause very low efficiency, poor communication, a lot of personal friction and usually end in financial losses. And on the more personal, more philosophical aspect, what's the point of working if you live alone? The occupational risk with this type of woman is, after Stress, the high number of them who commit suicide shortly after retiring, it seems that the day after retiring, they lose 20 years, when they realize that they are alone and without love from anyone, something for which no human being is prepared, in fact the entire social construct is to make our children happy, and That's what working is for, money, power, fine clothes, they're not going to run to you, with open arms.

So the myth of the Glass Ceiling has been debunked again, but since it is a political dogma, designed to manipulate and fill the minds of its followers with hatred, it will continue to be repeated, because as the Nazis said: "a lie, repeated a thousand times." "It seems true"