Yesterday Caterina Fake posted a commentary on Misbehaving.net about the effort women need to make to succeed in high-tech [Work Twice as Hard].
I am sure high-tech executive women need to work really hard to get were they are. But I also see a lot of (really talented) women working twice as hard just to survive. Going against the current is not very rewarding: you swim like a crazy woman just to remain in the same place.
Not to mention that in addition to the work our beloved companies force that upon us, we have often to struggle with the voices in our head. I do work a lot (well, some days more than others), but I am also so conflicted about it that it feels even harder. I work so much more that I would like to do or that I consider healthy. And sometimes I find myself still in the office at 8:30 PM and I realize that even if I worked for 24 more hours straight I wouldn’t be able to scrape more than the surface of the pile of things to do.