EVENT ARCHIVE

Members take part in a monthly events programme, designed and curated by FT editors, which feature world-class speakers. The content is a mixture of high level issues looking at the big issues affecting business and more practical workshop sessions. Supporting reports and guides can be shared across members’ businesses. The events and supporting materials are designed specifically for female executives to build knowledge & understanding that will support them through major challenges and help them through future disruptions.

2021

RECONCILING THE DEMANDS OF CAREER AND FAMILY

It can be tough for women to strike a balance between the demands of a career and family life—especially in more traditionally-minded societies such as those in Asia. There can be few jobs that require as much commitment as becoming an astronaut. Lucy Colback, Editorial Director of the FT's Women in Business Asia Forum, is delighted to be joined by Naoko Yamazaki, Japan's second female and first mother to go into space, to discuss achieving that balance.

Naoko will share how she reconciled her career ambitions with family expectations. She will talk about coping with the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, a devastating event which occurred during her training as she was mother to a small toddler, and the importance of learning to ask for help.

12 January 2021