by Dot Callihan | Nov 22, 2017 | Dealing With The Ugly Stuff, Thinking Like Empowered Women, Understanding The Male-Dominated Workplace
There are some industry cultures that endorse a drinking culture – frequently getting together after work to drink. Coming from one such industry I understand how it normalizes alcoholism and creates problems for women. Many women and women’s organization encourage...
by Dot Callihan | Nov 21, 2017 | Thinking Like Empowered Women
A lot of women tell me I am strong. My usual response is to screw up my face because I don’t think I am any different from many women I know. Actually, I’m more restrained than them because after I left New Jersey I learned that many people don’t...
by Dot Callihan | Nov 17, 2017 | Understanding The Male-Dominated Workplace
We have a lot of impressions of what the professional office was like in the 1960’s and 1970’s. But our impressions probably miss one important characteristic – its civility. When I began working in 1982 I was the first female engineer in a very traditional office. ...
by Dot Callihan | Nov 15, 2017 | Thinking Like Empowered Women
America loves the story of the self-made man – the man who started his life in abject poverty and rose to the pinnacle of wealth and success. It is story of extremes, drive and determination. And it seems to be an almost exclusively male story. I went through the...
by Dot Callihan | Nov 13, 2017 | Thinking Like Empowered Women
There is an old fallacy that change happens from the top down. It says that in order for a company to institute a new initiative the first must-do step is: Get CEO buy-in! The CEO then gets the buy-in of senior management. Senior management then directs the...
