The other day at a talk about leadership:
Someone in the audience “- Why do you think there are so few female CEOs?”
The guest speaker (male) “- Women are too brilliant to bother with the hassle of being a CEO” (implying that they don’t want to bother with the politics that goes with the job) and of course to justify his point he added “that’s what the women I met in the past told me…”
I am just amazed that a renowned leadership speaker can really believe that and also completely ignore the real reasons why so few women are in leadership positions.