by Dot Callihan | Apr 2, 2018 | Acting As Empowered Women
Do you dread attending meetings? Do the rest of your co-workers feel the same way? Do most of your workplace’s meetings start late because you are waiting for everyone to show up? I discovered the cure. Food. Nothing gets people’s attention in the office more than...
by Dot Callihan | Mar 26, 2018 | Acting As Empowered Women, Thinking Like Empowered Women
Many women don’t really understand the real tangible value women bring to the workplace. This is because we are led to believe that for all of the centuries women were not part of the workforce, the all-male workplace functioned just fine. The proof of that is in...
by Dot Callihan | Feb 16, 2018 | Acting As Empowered Women, Dealing With The Ugly Stuff
Being a woman working in a career-field dominated by men, I’ve run into countless men afflicted with BMOC (Big Man on Campus) Syndrome. Usually the first warning sign that a male colleague has contracted the syndrome is the aggressive declaration “I want to be in...
by Dot Callihan | Feb 9, 2018 | Acting As Empowered Women
When men and women go into the same trade, vocation or profession they take very different career paths. Men tend to take the path that leads to the higher paying jobs and advancement while women take the path to lower paying government, secondary and support jobs...
by Dot Callihan | Feb 1, 2018 | Acting As Empowered Women
Last year I was cycling by myself when I suddenly fell and did the ultimate face plant. I don’t remember the fall, just waking up with my head laying across a man’s leg. I heard him call 911 and report my list of injuries. I remember him telling me I broke my wrist...
by Dot Callihan | Jan 30, 2018 | Acting As Empowered Women, Thinking Like Empowered Women
It is common to hear that in comparison to men, women lack confidence and therefore seek more validation. I’ve never believed this was a natural trait of women but a product of our conditioning. As we grow from girls into women that conditioning is continuously...
