by Dot Callihan | Dec 18, 2015 | Dealing With The Ugly Stuff, Thinking Like Empowered Women
I read a post from a male friend on facebook who was upset over Carly Fiorina quoting Margret Thatcher during the Republican debate: “If you want something talked about, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.”
He was angry at her for both saying it and thinking it. He thought she was being sexist against men. He was upset that none of the male Presidential candidates took issue with her. He assumed the reason they didn’t was out of fear of being labeled sexist.
I suggested to him that they didn’t respond because they knew there was a lot of truth to what she was saying and they didn’t want to step into that hornet’s nest.
by Dot Callihan | Dec 10, 2015 | Thinking Like Empowered Women
Recently I read a blog that announced there was no difference between male and female brains. The author was too anxious to state that men’s and women’s brains are the same and therefore men and women are the same, that she missed some important information. She...
by Dot Callihan | Nov 26, 2015 | Thinking Like Empowered Women
I have two questions for you. What makes a woman less of a woman? And What makes a woman less feminine? Do you see them as the same question or as different questions? How you answer that depends upon how you define “feminine.” I looked up “feminine” in many...
by Dot Callihan | Nov 19, 2015 | Thinking Like Empowered Women
Recently I had a discussion with an older retired woman who started her career in engineering in the 70’s. She spent her college days and most of her career as the woman in the room. Shortly into our talk she brought up how her male colleagues would drive her nuts. It...
by Dot Callihan | Nov 12, 2015 | Thinking Like Empowered Women
What do I mean by Abstracts in Action and Abstracts in Action? When we discuss what men and women do when assigned a task, we hear that men take off into action while women start talking and building relationships. We get to action later. We learn to associate action...
by Dot Callihan | Nov 5, 2015 | Thinking Like Empowered Women
I hear from a lot of women who don’t feel as powerful at work as they want to be. They feel like the male hierarchy shuts them down or holds them back. I understand exactly what they are talking about. However, I don’t let my male colleagues and their hierarchy affect me.
How? Why not?
Because I don’t consider myself part of the male hierarchy.
