by Dot Callihan | Mar 11, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women, Thinking Like Empowered Women
There is a lot of discussion about how women earn $0.77 for every $1.00 men earn. In the short media sound bite clips we are led to believe that this is primarily due to wage discrimination and women being poor wage/salary negotiators. This is misleading. This is...
by Dot Callihan | Mar 3, 2016 | Dealing With The Ugly Stuff, Thinking Like Empowered Women
We want to think of women as caring and we hope their presence makes the workplace a more cooperative environment. As one of my female traits I list that women work in groups and we assume that their groups are cooperative and supportive. While we want to associate...
by Dot Callihan | Feb 26, 2016 | Thinking Like Empowered Women
Women still talk about being discriminated against in 2016, but is it still a relevant issue for women in today’s male-dominated workplace? Over the past 20 years workplaces have invested great sums of money training themselves and their employees on how to avoid...
by Dot Callihan | Feb 19, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women
My freshman year in high school I had to give a speech in front of my class. Before I began I looked out at my audience and saw bored, zoned out faces. I knew no one was listening and no one cared what I said. It seemed a waste of their time and a waste of my...
by Dot Callihan | Feb 12, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women
Last week a friend called me completely freaked out about a short notice presentation she has to give. Her topic is on an innovation idea she’s been promoting to add protein to diets in developing countries. But without much support to date, she...
