The Path of Women

can impose. Then there are moments where women start something, only to discover that for whatever reason it isn’t the right path.

It’s time women stopped feeling bad about their messy career path and started celebrating how squiggly they are.

Women also carry a mental load that can distract them, yet men achieve their career “success” without carrying this mental load. With the “lean in” movement women have been told to take a seat at the table, but in reality that seat isn’t as easy to sit on as a man’s. Men can turn up for a meeting and literally sit at the table with nothing else on their mind except the agenda being discussed. Women will sit at the table and while participating in the meeting, they are also mentally planning the grocery shop, dinner, wondering if the soccer uniform is clean for the game tonight, when they might catch up with those friends and so on. The mental load that women carry is different to men, which can impact their ability to progress their career.

In addition, women are more inclined to seek fulfilment from what they do. It is common mid life for women to wonder if this is really it? Isn’t there more I ought to be doing? Women are more willing to rethink and reassess their path and maybe take a sideways or a backwards step to have greater fulfilment in what they do.

What does your path look like? Maybe your journey isn’t a full time career, maybe your journey will always be a juggle of family, volunteering, and paid work. What’s really important is that you find joy and fulfilment in your journey. Showing up for yourself and your family in the way you want.

I invite you to think of your own path, what does it look like and ask yourself what success looks like for you?

There are many reasons why the path is messy and squiggly, and each of those loops represents another milestone in life. Consider the interruptions to the journey that having a family