To fight against the brakes that restrict the ambition of women, Business O Female organized on March 20, in partnership with Capital, 360 Female Leadership Forum, an event intended to give them the means to boost their careers. The key: several points of GDP and access to “a hitherto unexploited growth reserve”. © Business O Fem & Google Women@ 2025 Save save Receive women alerts some people talk about women’s modesty in the face of money, other risk aversion … whatever the terminology, the reality that it designates does not vary: faced with financial success and all that is attached to it – increase in salary, promotion, investment … Phenomenon, now well known, weighs each year on economic activity. To twist the neck for this state of affairs and to the received ideas which fuel it, Business O feminine organized on March 20, in partnership with Capital, the second edition of the 360 Female Leadership Forum, an event intended to help women to boost their careers through a series of inspiring interventions and practical workshops organized around leadership, of speaking, the art of storytelling and the proper use of IA. For Véronique Forge-Karabian, founder and CEO of female business o, ambition was clearly displayed: tackling the glass ceiling which slows down ambition and impacts professional success. Whoever continues to rage in the economic world and that, more pernicious and just as harmful, that women impose themselves. “Outstanding women” to fight against the glass ceiling and self-censorship “The observation has been made for years: to the exogenous brakes emanating from society and organizations are added the internal brakes that women put themselves to their own own and which can make their own detractors, she explains. To go to the next phase, you have to equip women: teach them to negotiate their wages, no longer devalue their wages, to put their skills. In front, to take risks … “Hence this objective: to make the event not yet another time of reflection but a concentrate of practical advice to” give women the levers necessary to take action “. An emergency, in view of the economic impact of this societal reality: even today, the wages of women remain, with equal skills, lower than almost 15% on average, their career, they are growing, capital and invest less in the economy. So many individual phenomena which, added, cost several points of GDP each year to France and slow down growth. “There is a huge loss of value, insists Véronique forge-Karabian, and in the skills of women, a real reserve of unexploited growth”. “Risk aversion” of women would cost the world’s billions of dollars every year to the world-friendly economy during the event, the deputy and author of the law aimed at imposing 30% of women in the Comex of companies with more than 1,000 employees from next year, Marie-Pierre Rixain, pointed out the link between glass ceiling and economic growth. Based, among other things, on a recent study carried out by the Banque de France, the deputy for the 4th district of Essonne hammered the figures: out of 87% of the existing professional sectors, only 18 are mixed. However, the full integration of women into all professional sectors would result in an increase of $ 2,100 billion in annual GDP in Europe, and 330 billion in France. Read also: Entrepreneurship: “A woman has half the chance that a man get a bank loan” Another example: the low proportion of women to place their money. In 2023, only 11% of them investigated on the stock market, compared to 24% of men. Reason invoked? “Their risk aversion”. However, if women investigated to the same extent as men, “almost $ 3,200 billion in capital would be injected into the world economy” insisted Marie-Pierre Rixain. Just like “$ 6,000 billion in world economic gains could be obtained if women created and developed companies at the same rate as men”. Hence the importance of “deconstructing” reluctance, to “lift the brakes and give women the tools to dare” repeated Véronique Forge-Karabian. Whether it involves daring to invest its capital, request an increase, pre -empt a job or create your business. In the general interest. Receive our latest news every day, selecting the main news of the day. (tagstotranslate) Women
