Power affects many aspects of our lives, but its perception and application can prove particularly complex, especially for women. Do you have a lot of power? Suddenly you’re unlikable.
Don’t have enough? You risk never finding a seat at the decision-making table. So what should power mean to us? How it should be used and who should have it, especially in a world that is constantly changing due to the technological revolution and geopolitical shifts.
The 6th Marie Claire conference, while putting as always at the top of the agenda the issue of equality and representation of women in decision making and business, this year makes an equally key intervention by trying to provide information and awareness on how to cope more effectively as citizens and as women in an ever-changing world.
With the assistance of expert speakers from every field, the Marie Claire Power Trip attempts to awaken, inspire and deliver some conclusions as a compass for our professional, social and personal development.
The first panel: Empowering women around the world over the last 87 years
– Galia Loupan Chief Content Director, Marie Claire International
Galia Loupan is Chief Content Officer of Marie Claire International. After studying languages and doing a postgraduate degree in English Literature at the University of Sorbonne, she lived briefly in India, then returned to Paris to work in the publishing industry. She joined Marie Claire’s International Department in 2009. Through her current role, she tirelessly advocates Marie Claire’s message “for women and about women”. She brings together journalists and editorial teams across the title’s 30 publications to support women and share their stories around the world.
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Galatea Laskaraki: We are paid 20% less than our male colleagues for the same work
We worry about others all the time. For their health, for their grades, for the national exams, for the hours they spend in the studio, for whether the little one is completely dumbed down or whether we have time to save her.
We feel very guilty about this. We also worry about our bank account because while we work on the verge of burnout in positions of responsibility we are paid 20% less than our male colleagues for the same work.
Do men really worry that much? I don’t know, but I think not so much and to tell you the truth I’m very jealous of them for that. My husband, for example, confessed to me at one point that if Elon Musk came tomorrow and gave him the chance he would go with the first crew to colonise Mars, which as you know has no chance of returning to Earth.
He would leave us here, worrying about him while he went to make history.
