Appreciating Women in Family Businesses

Listen to Margaret-Jean Mannix talk about the increasing appreciating for the various roles that women play in the family business.

I see for women in family business, I see a much greater appreciation for the different roles that they can play. I would say recognizing the significance of a supportive spouse, recognizing the role that that plays in often being the calming factor for family dynamics because they might be another perspective on the family business, they might be right in it, but having that family space and the family perception and the family focus of the next generation is much more highly appreciated than it was historically, which is critical because I feel women have more of a choice today about can I stay home and be that primary care-giver or work part time or find some other solution I think we have more creative opportunities before us for how we participate, it doesn’t have to look like I can only be the CEO. So I think the appreciation for the different roles women can play is increasing, the appreciation for support on a variety of levels but I know like my experience of having had the opportunity to do things that actually a lot of my cousins and siblings never had to because the businesses were sold, so on some level, I was given a much greater opportunity than some of my relatives.