"Having it all is possible but we need to re-define what 'all' means." - Dr. Regina Hechanova, March 20, 2013 at Operations Room, AG Samonte Hall, UPLB.
Since March is still women's month, and before the hiatus starts for holy week, I'm thinking of coming up with Women Wednesdays section where I will write about remarkable women that I've encountered.
I'm so glad my boss sent me to cover this talk last week officially. I've been on the look out for realistic women pegs. If I were to write what I've been learning, I guess I will have to come up with a new blog for that
Meet Dr. Regina Hechanova of Ateneo CORD.
She spoke about Filipinas' Journey to Equality Work life Balance, she also shared her own journey. She was raised in an a female household for she doesn't have any brother and lost her dad at a young age. Her family tend to hold traditional gender roles. She pursued a career and further studies even if she had four children and she had kept her maiden name professionally, because she had started writing books before she got married.
She believes that behind a successful man is a supportive woman and behind a successful woman is a supportive man. Before she married her husband, she already informed him of what he is getting himself into.
She continued to struggle to balance work and family and discovered that she doesn't really have to choose one over the other, just make trade offs after having entered a masculine organization and got promoted quickly. She then, shifted careers that gave her greater balance. I remember she admittedly said that when a man is a aggressive in a workplace, he is considered a good boss, and if women does it, she's called a bitch.
And most of all, she knows "The Secret", because she shared something she did years ago, written it down and discovered years later that it all came true.
I am so glad I have her talk saved in mp3 because I love learning from people.
