by Dot Callihan | Oct 27, 2020 | Acting As Empowered Women, X 2
Here is a social media post I read: “I had a candidate, female, who we wanted to hire. Her salary ask was significantly lower than her worth – especially considering location.The hiring manager came to me. He said he was uncomfortable with her salary ask, and...
by Dot Callihan | Feb 26, 2020 | Acting As Empowered Women
Too many women still allow closed doors to deter them. They expect men to tear down the doors so they don’t have to do anything to advance themselves. All through my career I faced closed doors. On the other side of the doors were the All-Boys...
by Dot Callihan | Feb 11, 2019 | Acting As Empowered Women, X 1
Toxic Masculinity makes women concerned about working with men. Since I spent my career in environments where women expect to find lots of toxic men and rampant toxic masculinity, I want to share what I learned about toxic behavior and how I controlled it. Watch this...
by Dot Callihan | Jan 15, 2019 | Acting As Empowered Women, X 2
As women we often hear things that don’t represent our female perspective. We recognize them because they don’t sound quite right to us. But, instead of speaking up and questioning it, we let it go. We do this because we believe that the other person...
by Dot Callihan | Jan 7, 2019 | Acting As Empowered Women
I’ve been anticipating it and it finally happened. Someone (Ed Rollins) called Alexandria Ocasio Cortez “little girl.” Of course, AOC thought the comment was pure misogyny. And her response probably caused lots of old guys to chuckle and shake their heads saying,...
by Dot Callihan | Oct 31, 2018 | Acting As Empowered Women, X 4
Confidence is a quality that seems to distinguish men from women. Men seem to naturally have it. But after working with so many men I know this isn’t true. The truth is men are just better at covering up their lack of confidence. The male-dominated workplace expects...
