Lack of ambition causes women to be grossly outnumbered and underrepresented in company boards, in corporate world and even in political leadership. My favourite pastime these days is looking up lists of the world’s most powerful women or the most powerful women lists in Fortune magazine. I have spent some time reading up on these powerful women, watching their TED Talks online and following their moves as reported in the press. It is your right to be an ambitious woman. In fact, my dream is that what was of said Mrs Thatcher shall be said of me someday; “This woman is headstrong, obstinate, and dangerously self-opinionated”

Source: Daily Nation January 19, 2018 18:00 UTC