Mary Barra and Ginny Rometty discuss being female role models in business with CNBC’s Leslie Picker at the inaugural CNBC CEO Council: Leaders’…
GM CEO Mary Barra and former IBM CEO Ginny Rometty joined CNBC's Leslie Picker at the CNBC CEO Council: Leaders' Library on Monday in New York City.They discussed the examples set by their own mothers during childhood, and their own professional journeys, from downplaying their gender to embracing their role as female business icons for other women today.
Rometty said she began embracing her identity as a woman and mother in the workplace when people began recognizing her as a role model."People can't be what they can't see. And I finally realized that I was being selfish by saying, 'no, no, don't look at me for being a woman, don't ever look at me for this.' Then I finally started to embrace it. ... I talk about our differences, that we can leave a memory and a mark," Rometty said.
Barra, who now has two grown children, said a lot of people assumed she would stop working when she shared that she was going to have a child. This expectation helped her to realize the importance of being a role model and mentor. Rometty's mother, in particular, helped pull her family out of poverty, and Rometty said she had"power even when she had nothing."
She recounted one instance in which she was offered a job,"and I said, 'let me go home and ask my husband.' The guy looks at me like, okay, that's kind of a weird answer. And I went home and my husband says, 'Do you think a man would answer it that way? I've watched this over and over, every time you take a new job, you're talking about everything you can't do... and then in six months, you're bored.
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