Women and work in different countries

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Women and work in different countries

• Helena Lindskog
• Department of Management and Engineering
• Helena.lindskog_at_liu.se

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Agenda

• Background
• Aspects to consider
• Business women working in other countries
• To be a woman visitor
• Reflections from London
• Last remarks
• Truth or just different versions

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Aspects to consider

• - Clothing
• - Be prepared
• - Language
• - Ability to converse
• - Masculine/feminine
• - Risks
• Swedish
• Common sense

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Be prepared

• - Geography
• - Religion
• - Political status - Who is a leader
• - Economic situation, main industries, crops,
  income
• - Some history
• - Important men and women

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Conversation

• How to start
• You are to do business and not subversive
  activities
• Listen

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• Awkward situations
• Easier for women
• Experience can help

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Majority of the world population is not
consisting of Swedes not even Scandinavians.To
show respect creates respect.
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Reflections from London

• Englishmen and to approach women
• Pubs and drinks in order to speak
• Tabloids and private life
• UK and US the same language but so different
• Gym and Swimming pool as multicultural meeting
  places

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Different versions of truth

• Some examples
• Rashomon
• film by Akiro Kurosawa in the early 50s
• short story by Ryunosuke Akugawa from 1916
• American version The Outrage 1964 with Paul
  Newman