by Dot Callihan | Oct 24, 2017 | Acting As Empowered Women, Dealing With The Ugly Stuff, Thinking Like Empowered Women
When women experience inappropriate behavior, sexual harassment, bullying or discrimination in the workplace, we have a lot of reactions – shock, anger, resentment, fear. Our mix of emotions creates confusion as we try to figure out what we should do about it. We...
by Dot Callihan | Oct 7, 2017 | Acting As Empowered Women, Dealing With The Ugly Stuff, Thinking Like Empowered Women
Construction sites have a reputation for crude behavior and the women who work on them can face behavior seldom found in other workplaces. This situation keeps most women away from the industry and those that do enter it often opt for support jobs in the office. Those...
by Dot Callihan | Sep 16, 2017 | Acting As Empowered Women, Dealing With The Ugly Stuff, Thinking Like Empowered Women
Several years ago I was working on a project where some senior male managers didn’t want a woman in charge. They wanted to prove that anything I could do, a man could do better. This was a particularly difficult project and men lasted about 2 months. So every 2...
by Dot Callihan | Sep 6, 2017 | Acting As Empowered Women, Dealing With The Ugly Stuff, Thinking Like Empowered Women
Recently I read an article in which a woman wrote about her experience interviewing for a new job. She did all the research on the job and knew how much she should be paid. During the interview, the men who interviewed her offered her 30% less than she expected and...
by Dot Callihan | Aug 28, 2017 | Acting As Empowered Women, Dealing With The Ugly Stuff
I read a lot of articles about women in the workplace and it seems we are fixated on identifying every slight, bad comment and bit of poor behavior. I’ve been told many times that the intent is generate awareness of sexual biases in the workplace and let women know...
by Dot Callihan | Nov 2, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women, Dealing With The Ugly Stuff
Sexual harassment is back in the headlines. And it is pretty much a repeat of what happens every time the issue is raised. There is a lot of sensational media drama as the story swirls around pitting her word against his. Without witnesses or proof there is no...
