Today we heard from Eva Cejkova, a successful Czech woman who not only owns her own business, but she also supports the rise of other women to top managerial positions through her work. I felt as if she was not only extremely poised and confident in her capabilities, but I admired her dedication to helping and providing support to other Czech female entrepreneurs. Like many of our speakers, Eva attributes her success to a strong family foundation and support system and her personal drive and internal motivation. The necessity of a strong family support system has become a common trend in the stories told by most, if not all of the women that we have spoken to in each country. It makes sense that a persons' work ethic is shaped by those around them, especially through the support provided by their family. So, in light of this it also seems that in order to ensure that more women become managers there must be a re-education within the home that supports the development of young women and their aspirations to become something outside of the home. Perhaps this can be associated to the gender socialisation of women, where they are told that they have a choice to either continue working or stay in the home, but the reality is that there is no real choice. Women now have a choice to stay in the home, a privilege that was not always granted nor accepted, and so it has subtly been indoctrinated that staying in the home is representative of this choice.
This is all a bit confusing still and it is something that is extremely interesting to me. I hope that through our final de-brief and in reading my journal entries, that I will be able to better understand the illusion of a choice that women are faced with once they become mothers. I have a great trip, and I think that I have taken much more away from the program that I was anticipating. Thank you Professor Kelley and Professor Gupta :)
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