I would never had thought that one day I'll do something specific for women.
When I was young I didn't see any difference between men and women. I mean: when I saw men being powerful, or doing this kind of job, or that kind of thing, I always identified like I did for a woman. My only thinking was only: I would like to do that, or I don't like and I won't do that. It was not: can I do that? Not even: 'oh, I can't do that'...
When thay made a law in France in order that 50% of elected people be women, I was against. I didn't think (and I still don't think) that quotas a re a solution to help women have the place they deserve in our societies.
At the contrary I deeply believe that if a woman want to be a politician, or a business woman, or whatever she wants to be, she just has to put herself in motion and go and make all she has to do to get it.
But I must admit that with experience, and getting older I have more experience ;-), I realized that things are not so easy.
Even men that are very polite and civilized can still have behaviours against women that tend to make them feel uncomfortable in certain situations or issues. It creates sometimes a lack of self-confidence. For example, I meet a lot of women that want to launch their business on Internet. But there is always a moment when they stop and say: 'oh, for the technical part I don't know, I will ask my husband to call you and talk with you about this'. It's amazing! We are talking about THEIR business, and suddendly they think it's baout TECHNICAL SKILLS! And even if their husband won't be part of their business at all, these educated women ask them to talk to my team and take decision about what to do whit their website!
I mean: do they want to have a marketing stratgy online and sell their items, or do they want to run a software?
But the thing is: lot of women still are very reluctant about technical stuffs. Even when technology has nothing to do with how they will use the thing.
And because they think they should have technical skills to do certain things, they prevent themselves from doing things and from improving their life, or their business situation.
That's mainly why I finally decided to dedicate WeWebWomen only to women: in order to help the women that don't tap into the power of Internet (and it's a great power!) because they are afraid of those softwares and langages created by a man-oriented culture that they don't understand, to gain confidence into what I call their 'WebWoman Power'... And, of course, to help the women that are alredy aware of their 'WebWoman Power' to go further and expand it at their maximum ;-)
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