An Audience With
Ann Cairns, vice-chair of Mastercard: You can be a good mother and be successful
The soon-to-be global chair of the 30% Club on the strengths of female leadership, changes companies should keep after the pandemic, and how to lead through a crisis
A male colleague at a bank once told Ann Cairns that his wife was a good mother because she stayed at home – unlike Cairns. Cairns outranked him by three levels.
“The implication that you can’t be a good mother because you’re successful is shocking,” Cairns says.
