Monica | August 23, 2009, 2:01pm | #

I would like to write a piece on the work place.

Twice in my career, within the educational field, i have been attacked for being a "Lone Ranger."

While men who were on my level as administrators chose to sit in their offices, i walked and i worked, created and sweated my way to success.

It is interesting how, as women gain more power and are more success driven to get the job done, men are relying on socialistic attitudes in order to point fingers.

We have historical had the "good ole' boys club" that women have had to punch and claw their way through the glass ceiling in order to move up.

Now that we are there, we are supposed to share, even if our equal halves cannot keep up. When I did too much, it was thought of as competition. I was competing against myself, which means that the egos of others were so inflated that they thought that they had equal effort.

Without help, when I became successful, i was accused of working within a silo-this cute term floats more and more around the business field.

Within the global marketplace, America as become weak and complacent against its peers. In Chine, you are rewarded for work, productivity and allegiance to your job. For the woman in America, it appears that competition is frowned upon...because we need to be collaborative.

I make the least amount of money among my peers, but am regarded as the strongest administrator. It is time that women are given the chance to earn what they deserve and to be allowed to shine without cliches falling upon them.

Times do change, men.