Women Rise We All Thrive

In this episode, hear Edna Lim - Schneider Electric's HR Director for Global Supply Chain, Corporate Functions, share her perspective on the fine balance between talking about your own achievements and spreading the credits for others.

In this episode, hear Ruth Seah, our Global Field Services Vice President, share her disruptive career shift to Schneider Electric after spending more than 20 years in IT industry, and elaborate why we should be bolder in taking on new challenging roles even when we are not 100% ready.

“A lot of women seem uncomfortable using the ‘I’ word, so they always try to spread the credit around. This might make them good people but it doesn’t help their careers” as Sally Helgesen puts it in her best seller book How Women Rise.

In this second episode of our podcast series, let’s explore with Lili Mow - Commercial & Transformation Vice President at Schneider Electric - why this tends to be more commonly seen in women, and gain some practical insights on how to overcome it.

In the very first episode today, we will try to provide a helicopter view of Gender Equality progress in the workplace, and discuss some of the major challenges, both from the external environment and internal mindset, that are preventing women from rising in their career, especially in a historically male-dominated industry.