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Thursday 17th May 2012

 
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Date: Friday 9th March 2012
Time: 10am to 4.30pm
Address: womenintechnology offices,
114 Middlesex Street, London, E1 7JH
Cost: £215 + VAT (£258) Price includes a copy of Suzanne's book.

Female Breadwinners: Managing A Successful Career and Relationship as the Main Earner
What might you have in common with nearly half of 18 female CEO's of Fortune 500 Companies? Seven of those 18 women, including Xerox Corp.’s Ursula Burns, PepsiCo Inc.’s Indra Nooyi, and WellPoint Inc.’s Angela Braly -- have, or at some point have had, a stay-at-home husband. So do scores of female CEOs of smaller companies and women in other senior executive jobs. And that's not even counting the vast number of yet more women who out-earn their male partner, even if he too works for pay. 

Make no mistake, female breadwinners are on the rise. Sure, these relationships can be a godsend to ambitious women needing the same type of support most of her male colleagues get - a wife. However, these relationships also feature unique challenges because of their relative recency and rarity. So, how do these women manage romantic relationships when they and their male partners are bucking convention and entering unchartered territory between the sexes?

Based on Dr. Suzanne Doyle-Morris' book Female Breadwinners: How They Make Relationships Work and Why They are the Future of the Modern Workplace this workshop will focus on the habits of women who successfully manage being the main earner for their families.  In this workshop we will use a mix of interactive exercises, as well group discussion and individual work to discover how best to manage the mix of responsibilities and range of feelings that are part of being a female breadwinner.

This highly interactive full day workshop will teach you:

  • The impact of your early role-models on how you and your partner view breadwinning and homemaking responsibilities.
  • The smart ways these families manage money, parenting and domestic chores.
  • How to handle the range of feelings from resentment to gratitude you both may feel. 
  • Which characteristics mean you are well suited to this model…and which are warning signs.
  • How to get support from family, friends and even children to make it a model for success… and who to avoid!
  • How to 'let go' of control,  delegate and empower him to take on more responsibility.  
  • Which extra-curricular activities are vital to the morale and confidence of lower-earning male spouses.
  • What employers can do to attract and retain these high-flying women.
Female Breadwinner sesssions are designed to be highly interactive. Apply only if you are looking to develop a strategic plan of action for yourself, share success stories and challenges and have fun with other like-minded and proactive women.

This course will be presented by Dr. Suzanne Doyle-Morris, author of “Beyond the Boys’ Club ”and “Female Breadwinners: How They Make Relationships Work and Why They Are The Future Of the Modern Workforce.”

If this course is of interest to you, please email Hayley Solly on hsolly@womenin.co.uk or call on 020 7422 9220. Many thanks!