Professionally ambitious women should carefully examine whether female executives are even welcome in a new company.
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Dusseldorf It began harmlessly: no photo with the CEO and a bouquet of flowers to welcome the new managing director of the subsidiary for the intranet, no meeting to get to know each other. Martina Geller (name changed by the editorial team) hardly got any appointments afterwards and if so, then only in such a way that there was no chance for a personal conversation. Your colleague from the finance department, on the other hand, was invited to the meeting on a regular basis.
The manager ignored the voices from the supervisory board, which warned even before Geller took office that the CEO had a problem with women in management positions. “I thought it couldn’t be anymore these days. And if it does, I’ll quickly convince him of the opposite with my excellent performance. ”A fatal fallacy – but apparently not a rare one.
Rather, “the cardinal mistake of many candidates,” says Sabine Hansen. She is the head of the HR consultancy She4her and places women in management positions from a salary of 180,000 euros per year.
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