by Dot Callihan | May 6, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women
When I was a kid growing up we understood that when people went to work, they did something tangible. We understood what the mailman, policeman, salesman, doctor, dentist, nurse and teacher did. Then a new job emerged – the middle manager. We...
by Dot Callihan | Apr 21, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women, Dealing With The Ugly Stuff
We experience a wrong-doing at work. It upsets us. We want justice. We want management to be just as outraged and upset as us but they aren’t. They just make it to go away. This makes us even angrier that this is how the system works. It isn’t fair. We have all...
by Dot Callihan | Apr 5, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women, Dealing With The Ugly Stuff, Thinking Like Empowered Women
Recently I read a comment in a post: “Women want to be treated the same as men except when they want to be treated differently.” Then I did a double take – the comment was written by a woman and had over 10,000 Likes. Wow! I couldn’t help but wonder what experiences...
by Dot Callihan | Mar 25, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women, Thinking Like Empowered Women
A few weeks ago while walking my dog in the park I watched a father hit baseballs to his young son. The boy standing in place missed several balls as they hit the ground all around him. His father finally said “You have to run to the ball. Don’t wait for it to come...
by Dot Callihan | Mar 18, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women
As I discussed last week, I’ve been looking into the statements we hear about how women make $0.77 for every $1.00 a man in earns. To be clear, none of the studies show that this discrepancy is for the same job. These are overall numbers. Within the same job title...
