Gender Communication Techniques Archives - Page 2 of 3

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Equality & Diversity, Fighting Stereotypes & Breaking Biases, Gender Communication Techniques, Goldilocks Dilemma, Leadership & Management, Politics

Can Body Language Trump the Message?

With the second presidential debate behind us, we've now seen the Democratic and Republican candidates debate in the town hall style. This allowed them to use the stage freely and for us to watch them respond to questions. No matter what your political views, if you watched the debate, you undoubtedly have your own views about their performance. We found the body language that Clinton and Trump used when sharing the stage to provide powerful messages for women seeking to break through bias. Clinton...

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by Andie & Al

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Advocating for Yourself, Gender Communication Techniques, Leadership & Management, Office Politics, Uncategorized

Interruption Tip Sheet

If you find yourself being interrupted, we have some tips for you. Check out the list below and download a printable Interruption Tip Sheet here. Preventing Interruptions Remain confident Ignore signals that someone wants to interrupt you Don’t look at people who want to interrupt you Use non-verbal behavior that shows you are in control (think power posing) Don’t pause in a way that provides others with the opportunity to interrupt you Keep your volume up Form alliances and agree to...

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by Andie & Al

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Women on President Obama’s Staff Use “Piling On” Technique to Successfully Promote Other Women’s Ideas

A number of people sent us a link to an article about Women in the White House using the "piling on" technique we describe in Breaking Through Bias to promote other women's ideas in meetings. We have written about the ways in which women in male-dominated meetings face "idea theft," where a woman's idea is ignored until a man repeats it as his own, taking credit for her idea. As we set out in Chapter 8 of Breaking Through Bias, women can support each other so that a woman's ideas are acknowledged as...

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by Andie & Al

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A Very Bad Idea For Achieving Gender Equality

Anne-Marie Slaughter’s 2012 article, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All,” became one of the most popular in The Atlantic’s history. Slaughter’s message, based on her two years in a high-level job at the U. S. State Department, was that a woman cannot successfully juggle a highly demanding career and the needs of two teenage boys. Many women across the country seemed to respond with a resounding “Damn right.” We, however, found Slaughter’s article superficial and its conclusions unsupported. In Breaking...

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by Andie & Al

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Compensation & Promotion, Equality & Diversity, Fighting Stereotypes & Breaking Biases, Gender Communication Techniques

Gender Bias: Here, There, Everywhere

The enormous gap between women’s and men’s career achievements is primarily due to serious workplace discrimination against women seeking to move up to increasingly important leadership positions. That discrimination, in turn, is due to stereotype-driven gender bias. Our book, Breaking Through Bias, the blog posts we write, and the speeches and workshops we give are all focused on this workplace bias and how women can avoid or overcome it. But women face gender bias in situations that have nothing to...

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by Andie & Al

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Advocating for Yourself, Gender Communication Techniques, Life Balance & Positive Mindsets, Motherhood bias, Office Politics, Politics

Clinton Did It; Should You Wave the “Mom Flag” in a Professional Setting?

Hillary Clinton's campaign has recently touted her softer side - positioning her as a mother and grandmother. Should you also do it in a professional setting? The Chicago Tribune asked Andie about what is entailed in "waving the mom flag at work." Andie talks about the Goldilocks Dilemma, and the difficulty most women face when discussing their motherhood at work. Read the full article here....

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by Andie & Al

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Are U.S. Millennial Men Just as Sexist as Their Dads?

Millennials, those Americans now between 16 and 36 years old, are often spoken of as if they’re ushering in a new era of enlightened interpersonal relations. For example, in 2013 Time predicted Millennials would “save us all” because they are “more accepting of differences…in everyone.” That same year, The Atlantic stated that Millennials hold the “historically unprecedented belief that there are no inherently male or female roles in society.” And in 2015 the Huffington Post wrote that Millennial men are “likely to see women as equals.” If these...

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by Andie & Al

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Silencing Women’s Public Voices

At the beginning of the Odyssey, Penelope enters the great hall and begins to speak. Her son, Telemachus, quickly tells her to return to her room because speech is “the business of men.” And ever since, men have sought to silence women’s public voices. Indeed, male hostility toward women’s participation in public discourse is far more common today than many of us are likely to be aware. For example, a male attorney recently admonished his opposing counsel that it wasn’t...

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by Andie & Al

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The Goldilocks Dilemma: Why Career Advancement is So Much Harder for Women Than Men and What Women Can Do to Change That

America’s workplaces, even in our best-intentioned organizations, are riddled with bias against women leaders. As a result, women seeking to advance in careers — particularly careers in traditionally male fields — face both negative and agentic biases. Negative bias is the result of the traditional feminine stereotype that a woman is or should be “communal,” that is, warm, caring, and gentle. A woman who conforms to the communal stereotype at work is likely to be seen as pleasant, but not...

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by Andie & Al

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How to Get Ahead at Work With Attuned Gender Communication

It is unlikely any of us will see workplaces that are completely free of gender bias in the foreseeable future. No matter how well-intentioned an organization may be, there are inescapable gender roles and expectations that are established by our society from the time we are born. We believe, however, that career opportunities for all employees (both women and men) can be drastically improved if everyone — managers, entry-level employees, women, and men — became more attuned to gender communication. Whether...

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by Andie & Al