S4 E73 | Gender Reduction in the Workplace featuring Susan LaMotte

Join Susan Lamotte, CEO and founder of Exaqueo as she dives deeper into gender reduction in the workplace.

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Shannon Pritchett 0:18So let me introduce our next presenter, which is a friend of ours at a CareerXroads, which is Susan Lamotte. Susan is the CEO and founder of Exaqueo, one of the things that really attracted me to her is her voice within the community. And I've mentioned at the beginning of the call, she wrote an article that was referenced in a discussion that Gerry had, I believe, on Facebook, that had had had to do with back in 2013. And it was like, Can women have it all which, of course, we've all had that kind of debate. And I love Susan's honesty. And I love her point of view. And I couldn't relate to an article more, especially one that was eight years old. And so I asked her to come speak, and she is here with us, Susan, would you like to draw? Would you like me to Dr. r? Would you like to take controls?

Susan Lamotte, Exaqueo 1:13Whichever you prefer? Shannon?

Shannon Pritchett 1:15All right. I'll give it to you, sharing and then you can just share your screen and really excited for this. All right, give me just a second.

Susan Lamotte, Exaqueo 1:26Sorry, I'm having some technology difficulties today. That's got to come up at least once for one person, right?

Chris Hoyt 1:31I just appreciate the Peloton in the background, Susan.

Susan Lamotte, Exaqueo 1:34Thank you. It's a little dusty this week, unfortunately,

Chris Hoyt 1:38I'm on a streak.

Susan Lamotte, Exaqueo 1:41Hopefully y'all can see my screen. Well, it's great to see everybody some new faces for me for sure. And dump some familiar ones as well. So thank you for the privilege of being here. And I've noticed I've got some old, some I shouldn't say old in age, but some folks are married on the line as well. So great to see you all as well. What I wanted to do today is actually not talk about what I do for a living, but rather tell you a little bit about my journey as a working woman. And so I know that Shannon already shared with you some of the statistics that are really troubling and, quite frankly, brought me to tears. And I think when you see things that affect you personally, and you feel like nothing has changed in your own personal situation, it's really hard to see. And we've all seen the statistics, right? There's a million examples of things you can share of underrepresented populations in the workplace and how they're affected in many different ways. But this one really struck me and here's why. If you look at this particular chart, the data is a little bit old. It's 2017. It shows the ratio of male to female, median earnings by age. And, you know, certainly it's no surprise, right? Women are learning less than men, we know that we've known that for a long time, it hasn't changed as much as we'd hoped. But what's really troubling to me is the gaps haven't changed either. Oops, sorry about that. So if you look at 1979, right, younger women still had and were earning more pay than older women. Fast forward to 2005. And that gap is still there. So for me, it's not looking at the surface data, right? The surface data is great for headlines and clickbait, and oh my gosh, women have no jobs. What's really interesting to me is the why. And hopefully my story will illuminate a little bit about that, almost 10 years ago, to right now, I was on top of the world. I was literally at the pinnacle of my career. I started working when I was 1314. I've worked ever since I put myself through almost three degrees. And I was literally killing it at work. At the time I was the global employer brand and marketing leader at Marriott Internatio...