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 18, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women
As I discussed last week, I’ve been looking into the statements we hear about how women make $0.77 for every $1.00 a man in earns. To be clear, none of the studies show that this discrepancy is for the same job. These are overall numbers. Within the same job title...
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 | Feb 19, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women
My freshman year in high school I had to give a speech in front of my class. Before I began I looked out at my audience and saw bored, zoned out faces. I knew no one was listening and no one cared what I said. It seemed a waste of their time and a waste of my...
by Dot Callihan | Feb 12, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women
Last week a friend called me completely freaked out about a short notice presentation she has to give. Her topic is on an innovation idea she’s been promoting to add protein to diets in developing countries. But without much support to date, she...
