by Dot Callihan | Jun 9, 2016 | Thinking Like Empowered Women
A few weeks ago a friend and I scheduled to go on a hike up through a canyon. My friend took up hiking about a year ago to the surprise of many of her friends. She doesn’t look like your typical southern Arizona hiker who lives in Birkenstocks and buys all their...
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 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...
