Conservative women require response from Minister of Industry – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Today held Conservative women’s conference in advance of the party’s national convention this weekend. One of the themes that occupy Conservative women’s why it is so low proportion of female executives in business.

They therefore require now that the Conservatives own trade minister Monica Mæland prepares a report with answers to the following three questions:

• How and why separates the proportion of female executives in business from organizational life, politics and academia?
• What can Norway learn from other countries?
• What measures can increase the proportion of female senior executives in business?

– There are some research about this, but it is getting old. The explanation is often that women are not willing to sacrifice whatever is necessary. It seems we seem very strange, says Julie Brodtkorb, leader of the Conservative Women’s Network and State Secretary at the Prime Minister’s office.

– Women in senior positions in the public sector and politics are apparently willing to sacrifice pretty much family time . Women toppolitikken is often commuters and very many hours at work. We believe it indicates that there must be something else here, she says.

With the Prime Minister meets

Brodtkorb even senior business experience, managing director of communications agency JKL.

– Although I have experienced that those in politics have been better to facilitate the combination of career and young children. This is about something as simple as understanding that you need flexibility with small children, and that children occasionally need to be part of the workplace, says mother of three, who also has a child who is originally from Iran living with him a few days a week

– If the Prime Minister need an evening meeting, for example, is never a problem for her that I have with me one or all of the children. But it has never beaten me to have four children to an evening meeting with a customer.

Brodtkorb believes it is important how you experience the workplace facilitates kids from day one. On her first day at the prime minister’s office, they came from the anteroom and wondered what she wanted the office to make it easier in relation to children.

– Here is the meeting table replaced with a sofa, and Disney channel placed along with all news channels. It is perhaps the most frequently used in my office, she laughs.

– In addition we have a rule: There is regjeringsråden that determines how much cocoa children visiting will take. And there are quite a lot.

– Not fair

Conservative politician thinks it is particularly important with a high proportion of women in the top of the business world because of the realignment country faces in the economy. This is one of the main themes of the Conservative party congress, according to Prime Minister Erna Solberg.

– With the realignment we experience, it is incredibly important that we get used the best brains of both sexes, says Brodtkorb.

– In addition I do not think it’s fair that parents in a period, particularly women, should not get render what they want because of a little adaptable employer.

– Have politicians done enough?

– Equality At least he is going to present a message in June, but I would urge LO and NHO to go even more into the issues, particularly NHO power to influence employers. Everything in this world can not be regulated by law, but it has very much with attitudes to do.

– An argument that always keeps in business is lønnshomhet. It can not possibly be profitable for Norwegian working to miss so many talented women.