SPE Women In Leadership 2016 - After Thoughts
First of all, I would like to clarify that I abhor the idea of International Women’s Day. I hate the commercialism that is mainly associated with it. Discounts on spa packages; buy one nail polish, get another free; companies utilize this day to buy the women in their office chocolates and flowers when instead they could promote equality and provide better rights for their female employees, like perhaps better maternity leave options. But a lot of good comes from it, the main thing being dialogue. The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) held the Women In Leadership Symposium at Abu Dhabi, UAE on 8 th and 9 th March 2016. I was lucky enough to be able to attend it for two sessions. It is definitely the most inspiring SPE event I have been to. And one thing I am definitely sure of: our stories are not unique. Everything I heard from the women is the same thing I have heard from my mother who works in the oil and gas industry as well. For example, one of the young pr