by Dot Callihan | May 22, 2018 | Acting As Empowered Women
Is there a woman alive who hasn’t made a suggestion to a man or a group of men, only to be blown off? The response you get is: “No, we got this handled. We know what we are doing.” Then you think to yourself, “No, you don’t.” You think about all the things they...
by Dot Callihan | May 16, 2018 | Acting As Empowered Women, Thinking Like Empowered Women
In the mid-1970’s I decided I wanted to be an engineer. I didn’t have any role models, except for maybe, sort of, Barbara Walters who I met when I was 15. I told her I wanted to be an aerospace engineer and she told me to go for it and not let the men stop me. She...
by Dot Callihan | May 4, 2018 | Acting As Empowered Women, Thinking Like Empowered Women
I’ve noticed a new trend in social media posts – women are offended at being the woman in the room. They are offended when other people are surprised to see a woman in a predominantly or historically male role. A common refrain is, “It is so unfair that I have to...
by Dot Callihan | Apr 27, 2018 | Acting As Empowered Women, Understanding The Male-Dominated Workplace
Newton’s Third Law of Motion is: For every Action, there is an equal and opposite Reaction As a female engineer, I discovered there is a similar law in the male-dominated workplace: When one man Acts, all other men must React Early in my career, my Reaction to this...
by Dot Callihan | Apr 26, 2018 | Thinking Like Empowered Women
Growing up my father always told me, “You never know what is going to happen in life so go to college and get a degree that will allow you to support your family on your own.” That was really good advice – that came in handy after I divorced. Given my father’s...
