Secretariain't: What This Is and Why It Is

Today is the first day of my 9 week journey into the depths of the deep questions I've been asking myself for the past few years:

• If women have achieved equality, why hasn't the Equal Rights Amendment passed? 
• If women have rights, why do I get emailed every (what seems like) week telling me the rights to make decisions about my body are being threatened?
• If women outnumber and outperform men in higher education, then why is the pay gap still being blamed on the victim?
• If women are respected for their intelligence and learning, why are there so few in the sciences and techworld?
• If women are capable and creative leaders, then why are so few CEOs of major companies?
• If liberal-minded men care about women's issues or believe women should be treated as equals, why do my posts about gender inequality on Facebook get so much derailment and dismissal from men that I love and truly respect in my personal network? 

This blog is intended as an exploration into these burning questions I have. As a youthful gen-y woman, I was promised by teachers and curriculum that I could do anything, be anything, and achieve anything. In fact, I used to believe that if I wanted something bad enough or if I were competitive enough, I could achieve it all. But over time, I began to realize that many of the games in life are fixed, that injustice is real and that it is all around us. 

As a woman in business (pursuing her green MBA), I want to engage and learn more about the systemic barriers that exist for women starting their own companies or striving to do well within existing companies. 

As the title of this blog suggests, not all of us dream of our names in lights with "admin. assistant" just below it.