Moms amongst women leaving the workplace

Hello BOMB.com mommas!

So, I posted on LinkedIn this morning and I thought I’d share with our working moms as well.

There was a trending article from Forbes that was posted by LinkedIn News titled, “The ‘Great Breakup’ And Why Women Leaders Are Leaving Companies At Higher Rates” This article shared stats and reasons for women leaving the workforce. Amongst the top reasons was burnout, sharing that 43% of women, compared to 31% of men in leadership experienced burnout. I reposted the article under my page and added my own perspective that highlighted additional findings.

Today, I wanted to hop onto my blog to share with you my perspective on, “WHY AE WOMEN LEAVING?”…

I believe women are leaving due to competing priorities to include our role as mom. The pandemic shed light on so much of what we were missing at home. To return to work and to engage in a pre-pandemic infrastructure, culture, and mindset is not only outdated, but unhealthy. Women lead different than men. We lead from a place of passion and value-add! We rarely choose for money alone (though enticing). Instead, we value what feeds us! We value what serves us! We value a mission that supports our inner beliefs that are consistent with what is demonstrated within our personal lives! As such, women should be valued in a way that welcomes our uniqueness and abilities that stem from what makes us woMAN; our femininity!

It’s hard and mostly impossible to lead with compassion, empathy, support, innovation, creativity, flare, class, softness, and beauty when we are burnout! These unique qualities in addition to being hard working, multi-taskers, smart, critical thinkers, and innate competitors that look for ways to provide a win-win situation are what we bring to the table when we are well rested, well cared for, valued, honored, recognized, seen, heard, and believed!

So, you ask for an added perspective on why women are leaving the workforce, especially women in leadership roles, well…

Liken this to an unhealthy or toxic relationship. Women leave when we have tried EVERYTHING to tell you what hurts, what’s not working, what offends us, what makes us unhappy and even what makes us sad. When we have politely shared our truth and ask things to change and our tear have fallen on deaf ears, we stop talking and we no longer share what is bothering us. When we’ve screamed in a posture of self-advocacy with no reciprocity of changed behavior we grow silent! Instead, we create a plan of escape. We simply remove ourselves from the relationship, never to return again!

We STOP the vicious cycle of abuse! We heal! We pause long enough to reinvent ourselves! We start again, only from a place of wholeness! We then reevaluate what is important and open ourselves to pour into something or someone who calmes us! And ANY sign or trait that makes us question our value, we do not tolerate. We have learned to love self enough to leave again, but this time much sooner than before.

No longer are women sitting by the waste side of life hoping to be valued. We are realizing that the journey less traveled is the road we WILL discover, even if we must go alone! Even if we must step away from a position of power because that position does not serve or feed our most vulnerable places. When the love and passion and purpose is gone, so is the woman who understands that her ultimate position of power is found in her femininity. Why? Because she is more fierce and able to give in the position of REST!