Jean Carder
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My name missing from list of the rich and powerful
Stray Thoughts
Jean Carder
I must admit I was shocked when I logged onto CNN’s Web site Monday. No, I wasn’t in shock about the bailout bill that failed to pass the House. I also wasn’t shocked when I read the headline, “Mom tells cops icy bodies are her kids.”
I guess I’m just getting cynical, but there are some weird people out there, and I didn’t care to read about why a mom froze her kids. And while the bailout bill is big news, since I can’t do anything about it, I refuse to get stressed out about it.
What did catch my eye was the headline under the business section, “50 Most Powerful Women.”
And let me tell you, I was shocked when I saw that list. Shocked, I tell you. You’re probably wondering what about the 50 most powerful women shocked me. I’ll just tell you. I wasn’t on the list.
Can you believe it? The audacity of CNN/Fortune not to list me, yes me, on their list of powerful women. Maybe it’s because I don’t have the title chief executive officer behind my name. I don’t know. What do you think: Jean Carder, CEO? I’m not sure if that has the right ring. If you ask my kids, my title is probably something more like: Jean Carder, dictator. I just say it’s Jean Carder, mom and because I said so.
Actually, I’m not even in the shoes of the women named to the Web list. All of them were lots, and I mean lots, older than me. Why most of them are in their 50s! I’m not even close to 50 yet.
The first entrant younger than I am checks in at No. 26. Charlene Begley, the President and CEO of GE Enterprise Solutions, is just a tiny bit younger than me at age 41. She’s the first woman named to the list below age 45.
The youngest woman on the list is from the Web world. It’s Marissa Mayer, the vice president at Google. She’s only 33 years young and is the youngest woman to ever make the list. She checks in at No. 50.
I think I need to talk to my boss about a raise, too. A sidebar with the powerful women list was a list of the CNN/Fortune’s 25 highest-paid women. Can you believe it? I’m not on that list either. Not even close. Not even in the ballpark. Not even in the region.
The top money-earner is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Alltel. Sharilyn Gasaway raked in a cool $38.6 million in 2007. That’s a pretty sweet paycheck. And Gasaway is not even on the most powerful women list. I guess money and power don’t always equal the same thing. Heck, I’d settle for the salary of the 25th highest-paid woman on the list. The EVP and president of a pharmaceutical company brings in a yearly $8.9 million.
Just think of all the things I could do with $8.9 million. Heck, I could buy my own tropical island, and then I could be a powerful, rich woman dictator mother all the time.
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I must admit I was shocked when I logged onto CNN’s Web site Monday. No, I wasn’t in shock about the bailout bill that failed to pass the House. I also wasn’t shocked when I read the headline, “Mom tells cops icy bodies are her kids.”
I guess I’m just getting cynical, but there are some weird people out there, and I didn’t care to read about why a mom froze her kids. And while the bailout bill is big news, since I can’t do anything about it, I refuse to get stressed out about it.
What did catch my eye was the headline under the business section, “50 Most Powerful Women.”
And let me tell you, I was shocked when I saw that list. Shocked, I tell you. You’re probably wondering what about the 50 most powerful women shocked me. I’ll just tell you. I wasn’t on the list.
Can you believe it? The audacity of CNN/Fortune not to list me, yes me, on their list of powerful women. Maybe it’s because I don’t have the title chief executive officer behind my name. I don’t know. What do you think: Jean Carder, CEO? I’m not sure if that has the right ring. If you ask my kids, my title is probably something more like: Jean Carder, dictator. I just say it’s Jean Carder, mom and because I said so.
Actually, I’m not even in the shoes of the women named to the Web list. All of them were lots, and I mean lots, older than me. Why most of them are in their 50s! I’m not even close to 50 yet.
The first entrant younger than I am checks in at No. 26. Charlene Begley, the President and CEO of GE Enterprise Solutions, is just a tiny bit younger than me at age 41. She’s the first woman named to the list below age 45.
The youngest woman on the list is from the Web world. It’s Marissa Mayer, the vice president at Google. She’s only 33 years young and is the youngest woman to ever make the list. She checks in at No. 50.
I think I need to talk to my boss about a raise, too. A sidebar with the powerful women list was a list of the CNN/Fortune’s 25 highest-paid women. Can you believe it? I’m not on that list either. Not even close. Not even in the ballpark. Not even in the region.
The top money-earner is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Alltel. Sharilyn Gasaway raked in a cool $38.6 million in 2007. That’s a pretty sweet paycheck. And Gasaway is not even on the most powerful women list. I guess money and power don’t always equal the same thing. Heck, I’d settle for the salary of the 25th highest-paid woman on the list. The EVP and president of a pharmaceutical company brings in a yearly $8.9 million.
Just think of all the things I could do with $8.9 million. Heck, I could buy my own tropical island, and then I could be a powerful, rich woman dictator mother all the time.