Keep Calm & Carry On.....Honey
Recently it became newsworthy that PepsiCo's famous CEO Indra Nooyi hated being called‘Honey’ or ‘Sweetie’ . I believe she found such ‘titles’ demeaning in an environment that needed to strive more towards gender parity. Of course, she meant that in the larger context of the contemporary work environment, with higher numbers of women in leadership positions, than ever before. Nothing against that, however, had she not been quoted in that article, a back and forth email thread would not have been generated among a few work colleagues; a heated argument on gender disparity at the workplace would not have resulted; and ultimately, as tends to be the norm, sexism, feminism and other isms would not have been invoked. Bottom line…a lot would not have occurred. But it did. And here’s a snippet: “One shouldn’t take these titles too seriously”, said one person. “Whether I am called Honey, Sweetie or Babe is not important to me – what I get to do (at the wo...