Guest bio
- Author, former CNN anchor and a strong advocate for women's empowerment.
- Argues that motherhood makes women more effective managers, and campaigns for gender parity at work and at home.
- A transformative experience in Turkey shaped her outlook, and she named her second book Shakti.
Carla de la Vega is an author, a former CNN anchor and a strong advocate for women's empowerment. Her work addresses gender parity at work and at home: the biases men hold about women, why only about one in ten Fortune 500 companies is led by a woman, and whether equality will really take another 300 years. She argues that motherhood makes women more effective managers, and that career-minded women should marry only partners who will support them. A transformative experience in Turkey shaped her outlook, and she named her second book Shakti.
Show notes
This is the second edition of Money Majlis XTRA where we cover topics outside banking and finance. In today's exciting episode, we talk to Carla de la Vega, ex-CNN anchor, author and a strong advocate for women's empowerment, about the challenges and opportunities of achieving gender parity in the workplace and at home.
What are the biases men have about women? Why are only 10% Fortune 500 companies headed by women? Will it take us another 300 years to achieve gender equality?
In an uplifting conversation, Carla de la Vega argues with Suvo Sarkar that motherhood makes women more effective managers and that career-minded women should stay single unless they can find supportive partners to marry.
Carla talks about her transformative experience in Turkey, why she named her second book "Shakti" and where she gets her positive energy from.
To learn more about Carla's work in women's empowerment, please visit : https://www.carladelavega.com/en
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