{"id":39613,"date":"2022-05-24T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeed.io\/?p=39613"},"modified":"2022-07-20T14:44:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T12:44:35","slug":"mothers-and-work-we-still-need-to-invest-in-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeed.io\/en\/mothers-and-work-we-still-need-to-invest-in-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers and work, we (still) need to invest in awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Being a parent is a unique training ground for developing relational, organisational and innovation skills that are increasingly in demand in companies. In particular, <strong>motherhood is an extraordinary experience<\/strong> capable of activating the <strong>natural skills of<\/strong> <strong>mothers<\/strong>, which can also be harnessed to their full potential at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately in 2022 there is still a lot of work to be done in this direction, as illustrated by the recent words of <strong>Elisabetta Franchi<\/strong>. During a conference, the fashion designer stated that she only hires <strong>women \u201cof a certain age\u201d<\/strong> in her company because \u201cwhen you put a woman in a very important position, <strong>you cannot afford not to see her coming in for two years<\/strong> because that position is left uncovered\u201d due to motherhood. \u201cI as an entrepreneur in charge of my company <strong>I have often gone for men<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And she added, with regard to the so-called \u201cwomen of a certain age\u201d (i.e. over 40), that \u201cif they were going to have children or get married, they would have already done it, so I take the ones who have done everything they have to, <strong>they are by my side and work 24 hours a day<\/strong>, which is important\u201d. These words stirred up great controversy, not least because they were uttered by a female top manager and a mother on <strong>Mother\u2019s Day 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is why today it is more important than ever <strong>to make our voices heard loud and clear: for Lifeed, motherhood is a unique opportunity <\/strong>for both individuals and companies to <strong>train skills<\/strong> that are transferable from private life to work, to <strong>discover new talents<\/strong> and improve <strong>individual and organisational well-being<\/strong>. It is scientifically proven that valuing motherhood at work makes mothers feel better and, as a result, produces major <strong>measurable benefits<\/strong> for companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An example? Data from the <strong>Lifeed Work-Life Observatory<\/strong> show that in 2021 it was mostly mothers who said they found themselves <strong>stronger than they thought they were<\/strong> (82%) and that they saw an <strong>improvement in their leadership skills <\/strong>through their caring roles (74%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Caring trains new leadership<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore we are publishing an excerpt below from a recent article by Riccarda Zezza, CEO of Lifeed on the AlleyOop blog of Il Sole 24Ore on the subject of motherhood and work: \u201cMotherhood is not an obstacle, it is actually a Master\u2019s qualification. On the contrary, experiences such as the birth of a child and caring for one\u2019s parents actually bring about a radically different model of leadership, one that draws on the instinct of the human species towards life and knowing how to take care of one another\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf we are still here, on Mother&#8217;s Day 2022, counting the <strong>resignations of working mothers<\/strong>, being outraged and commenting on stories of <strong>women being demoted<\/strong>, <strong>bullied and fired<\/strong>, wondering where the <strong>guilt <\/strong>of a working mother is (in space) or celebrating the cases where a pregnant woman is hired or even promoted as exceptional \u2026 then <strong>something is wrong<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cWe need to invest in awareness and knowledge, <\/strong>so that we can stop looking for new adjectives to give meaning to words that have lost their capacity to describe reality. We must question everything invisible and make it visible by referring to <strong>things by their real name<\/strong> and making ourselves aware that we can choose\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFinally, it is time to accept that diversity, like leadership, does not require us to work to make new recruits conform or to assign them the right \u2018diverse\u2019 attributes, but instead to work to <strong>transform those who were already there<\/strong>. Now that would be a good way to celebrate mothers in Italy in 2022\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo: Ansa<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a parent is a unique training ground for developing relational, organisational and innovation skills that are increasingly in demand in companies. In particular, motherhood is an extraordinary experience capable of activating the natural skills of mothers, which can also be harnessed to their full potential at work. 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