Dont Call Me Sweetie Or Honey At The Workplace Says PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi

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Dont Call Me Sweetie Or Honey At The Workplace Says PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi


Speaking out on women's roles in the workplace and society, PepsiCo's India-born CEO Indra Nooyi said she "hates" being called "sweetie" or "honey". Instead, she said women should be respected as individuals and not addressed by such names. "We still have to have equal treatment. 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 said yesterday at the Women In the World Summit presented by renowned journalist and author Tina Brown in association with the New York Times. Nooyi said women have been in the "revolution mode" for many many years, from getting entry into the "boys club" to demanding parity in pay. She said women have "clawed" their way into the workplace by getting their degrees, good grades in school, which made the male counterparts "take note of us." "We clawed our way into the revolution in this work place. Then we needed parity in pay, not yet there we are still fighting for that," she said. 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. "There is a bigger issue we have to talk about. I don't believe women help women enough in the workplace. Let's figure out how we can help each other way more than we are today," Nooyi said. She said experts need to address why women compete with women too much at 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.



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