PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi believes women should not be called Sweetie , Honey or baby at workplace !
Generally people use words like sweety, baby, honey for girls in a workplace. Asserting that women in workplace and society deserve an equal treatment, PepsiCo’s India-born CEO Indra Nooyi said she “hates” being called “sweetie” or “honey” and women should be respected as individuals and not addressed by such names.
Nooyi said at the Women in the World Summit presented by renowned journalist and author Tina Brown in association with the New York Time “I hate being called sweetie or honey at times which I still am called. All that has got to go. We have got to be treated as executives or people rather than honey, sweetie, babe. That has to change.”
Nooyi further added that women have been in the “revolution mode” for many many years, from getting entry into the “boys club” to demanding parity in pay.
Nooyi, however, lamented that women do not help other women in the workplace as much as they should and asked women to make sisterhood more strong. And indeed its true!
She said experts need to address why women compete with women too much in the workplace when they should instead be helping each other out. She also pointed out that women often do not take feedback from other women positively.
Nooyi is among the most powerful and influential business women in the world, said companies and individuals have not yet talked about the “big revolution” of how societies, governments,companies and families help women as they give birth, take care of young children and aging parents and at the same time manage a career.
