Challenges Women Face In LEADERSHIP
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the lack of female leadership in the film and security industry and how this is affecting women in the workplace. We discuss the role of women in leadership roles in the industry and what it means to be a woman in a male-dominated industry.
Transcript
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okay so i'm gonna go back to the original topic um okay um
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um okay have you guys seen any procedures or policies put in place to put more female
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leadership in place where you work i had to think about it and i was like oh well at my workplace
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i'm a senior waitress which is like head wait waitress or waiter in in the front house of
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front of house there's other women that also um have well there's another lady should i say that
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is also a head waitress as well but apart from that it's males and just males and there's only
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other one female manager and i believe that she's being combated by two other males so are you even
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relevant we're not sure but um i just feel like women are given are being given more um positions
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but i'll be being trusted with the positions that were being given that's the problem imagine giving
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me a job and you've employed me knowing that this is the um this is my experience and then still
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somehow questioning my experience it's like do you not know what you employed me for did they employ
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you or whoever it was because they were a woman or because they were qualified um i feel like they
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employed employed me myself because they needed someone to be like of that level of you know
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experience and caliber in their um establishment and they had a lot of male counterparts already
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so they wanted to even out and obviously i'm black and you know the hierarchy you have to have like
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gender fluid so was it to fill a quota i thought yeah there was making you know filling out the stuff
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but at the same time they needed it to be in the hierarchy they already had a male one so it was like
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to even out but like i said them giving me that position for me it felt like okay they're trying
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to make it more fluid to the other ladies there that okay you know it's possible because i feel
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like before they employed me there was someone that they could have given it like you know pay rise
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they could have gave them a you know a little job rise whatever but they didn't they put a new
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person there so at times yeah i feel like women are being given extra you know position but just i'll
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be being trusted with the position that we've been given okay what about you um they want to hear you
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speak um what was the question again um oh have there were there any policies put into place to
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put women in more leadership positions where you work um the last job that i had like actual nine
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to five um one girl wanted to go as a business manager but they made her work for it for about
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two years and they kept giving it to other men while she was waiting for it so i feel like it's less
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chance that you're going to get a higher position as a woman because of the things that we discussed
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so no policies at your work i'm glad that sounds like there weren't any where i was no and there
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was okay it was a male-dominated industry it's not really not really applied to me because i work for
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myself and i've only worked for the one woman so i'm not sure but cleo i'm sure has i mean in short yes
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i feel very blessed where i work they do open it up for different creeds colors ages demographics and they
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like to have a 50 50 gender split within our meetings and leadership and they try to um okay
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they try to make it 50 50 okay go ahead yeah i think her mic i think is muted blessing
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yep on okay i think with my previous one it's it was a thing where like in meetings we did talk a lot
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about okay when the next event happens we need more female leaders to speak up and like kind of
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take control a bit more so it's not as male dominated so yeah i think it's getting a bit
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more evened out okay um so what they were specifically trying to get women in yeah so in a lot of the
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meetings they would say yeah we want a lot more females to speak up like when we do events and whatnot
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not okay okay um but let's start on that side or um china go and then anywhere you've worked have they
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tried to put policies in place to get more women yeah in the past i've um because yeah in the film
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and security industry they've tried to get women into more um insecurity yeah in the film because
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not represented enough you need to have a certain amount of women women there yeah but it's not yeah
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yeah yeah yeah yeah i have a i have a friend yeah yeah yeah yeah men can't men can't search women
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so obviously women obviously like if there's a scenario in a woman's toilet or something like that you
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need you need to have women's security yeah it doesn't mean they're going to do the same thing that
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men are going to do you'll be surprised oh you're right just search okay yeah yeah especially that
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okay um go ahead um like i said i'm not that experienced in like the working industry but it's always been
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50 50 50 okay there's always women and men so okay are there any policies in place i've never been
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aware i've heard that there are some but i've never been aware okay yeah i'm very limited also okay
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any policies that were put in place policies must be invisible i ain't seen them i ain't seen them
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apparently i don't know maybe they're in the back i ain't seen them
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um go ahead um in my industry of work um they mainly employ or women mainly apply for like go
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forward for those roles so if anything it's about equality and diversity so evening out and looking
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for men potentially okay um because there are policies put into place to put women in the leadership
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can we say there's anything holding women back from doing any job in 2022 no okay no kids
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okay what about you guys who said yeah i said yeah but i would say i'm personal life choices i feel
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like what you want to do in your life and where you want to go is what you will fluctuate more towards
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so some women don't have much ambition not to say that you know anyone's ambition is but some people
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just want to do the mainstream they don't want to exert themselves further or broaden the horizon
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that's what i feel okay go ahead you too yeah i think mostly women don't really want to do those
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roles because this is like generalized because they're harder jobs and women prefer the easier life
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what was the question again exactly sorry can we say that women are held back from doing any job in 2022
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when there's specific policies to help women and there's nothing stopping us from applying from any
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job i was just going to say i think if the only thing nowadays especially in like the western world
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the only thing that hold women back is themselves maybe you know whatever their home life is or you
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know whatever limiting beliefs they have around having such a high-paid job
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yeah i i've always done what i wanted in my career i've always ever turned every no into a yes
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so i take it as a challenge personally if they tell me no then i'm like watch me yeah great
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yeah um i second real girl i kind of just um to defend probably another side of it sorry just to
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just to just to defend another side of it i think maybe some women may find it they may think it's
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unattractive to another man to make more money or be more successful so they may not want to go for
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go for those job roles because they may want the man to feel like the man in the household and um
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yeah making a lot of money is as scary as a woman and having your own and not needing
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much um can be disheartening can be very i've been told um scary or i think it's just the attitude
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that comes with it i agree yeah you can come all sugary and sweet with it and just kind of chill
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but some women want to throw it in the man's face like look at me i'm a worker i make money money
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me like if you if you're the breadwinners is your money his money can you make the financial decisions
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