by Dot Callihan | Jul 6, 2016 | Thinking Like Empowered Women
When I went into the Air Force as an engineering officer in 1982 my first reaction to my new workplace was: “What the Hell? I thought you guys knew what you were doing!” My reaction came from the perspective of a young woman raised at a time when society believed men...
by Dot Callihan | Jun 23, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women, Thinking Like Empowered Women
I often see it cited that one reason women aren’t advancing in the male-dominated workplace is because women don’t have enough female role models. I always question how much of a factor this really is because I never had an older woman in my profession to be my role...
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 | May 26, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women
I wanted to do a follow up to last week’s article Political Swamp Wars 2016 because I got some great positive feedback reinforcing a point: When we are at work, we all need to have a bit of Alligator Slayer in us. That after all is what our...
by Dot Callihan | May 18, 2016 | Understanding The Male-Dominated Workplace
Like everyone else I am tuned into this year’s Presidential race but I am fascinated by it from a different perspective. After working in and studying the male-dominated workplace for 30 years, I am fascinated by watching so much of what I talk and write...
by Dot Callihan | May 6, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women
When I was a kid growing up we understood that when people went to work, they did something tangible. We understood what the mailman, policeman, salesman, doctor, dentist, nurse and teacher did. Then a new job emerged – the middle manager. We...
by Dot Callihan | Apr 21, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women, Dealing With The Ugly Stuff
We experience a wrong-doing at work. It upsets us. We want justice. We want management to be just as outraged and upset as us but they aren’t. They just make it to go away. This makes us even angrier that this is how the system works. It isn’t fair. We have all...
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 | 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...
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...
by Dot Callihan | Feb 4, 2016 | Thinking Like Empowered Women
One reason I started my website and blogging was to help women be proud of who they naturally are. Too often we are afraid to say that men and women have different traits because we assume all traits identified as female will be labeled inferior. Our society has...
by Dot Callihan | Jan 29, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women, Thinking Like Empowered Women
Last week I heard a woman say (paraphrasing) “Women should stop using teamwork as something they are better at than men. Men play sports and use teamwork more so they are better at teamwork than women.” My problem with this statement is that understanding teamwork...
by Dot Callihan | Jan 21, 2016 | Thinking Like Empowered Women
Those of you that have read a lot of my articles know I love to give a different perspective anytime there is an issue based on something women do differently from men and there is the assumption that what women do is wrong or inferior. Last week I was going through...
by Dot Callihan | Jan 14, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women, Thinking Like Empowered Women
A common response from women to my website tagline “Empowering Women to Lead the Male-Dominated Workplace” is “I don’t want to lead men.” I often wonder why I get that response. Can it be their perception of leadership? When we think of leadership, we typically...
by Dot Callihan | Jan 7, 2016 | Thinking Like Empowered Women
The tagline to my website is “Empowering Women to Lead the Male-Dominated Workplace.” Since writing it, I’ve been amazed at how controversial this statement is. This is because as a society we created a controversy instead of simply understanding the different...
