The New Rules of Fight Club, as Written by Women

The post below originally ran on Venture Valkyrie on November 18. If you have any doubt that women’s roles are becoming more important in the workplace, look no further than the upcoming new Star Wars film. In the film, the main robot character, BB-8, has been designed to be female, according to news reports…and not just female, but pivotal to the plot and strong in character. I love this new twist on Star Wars, as it occurs to me that it is our national standard to default to assuming most things are male, especially robots and CEOs, unless they are pink and purple and frilly. But most of the strong, fierce and successful women I know are neither pink nor purple nor frilly but are far closer to BB-8: curvy perhaps, but strong in character and pivotal to the plot. More often than not, they dress in black like the ninjas they are. I read this story about BB-8 while on my way home from a retreat with a group of very senior female healthcare leaders.  It’s an organized group who meet once a year to share thoughts, stories, encouragement and support. The group, which shall remain nameless and for which I will provide no specific details, Fight Club style (the 1st rule of Fight Club: you don’t talk about Fight Club), consists of about 32 CEOs, financial gurus, public policy leaders, not-for-profit executives and other such women who sit squarely at the top of their game and who have been at it for a while (there are also emeritus members as the group has been going for al...
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