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Advocating for Yourself, Compensation & Promotion, Equality & Diversity, Fighting Stereotypes & Breaking Biases, Goldilocks Dilemma, Office Politics

How to Deal With Gaslighting at Work

The term “gaslighting” comes from the classic 1944 movie, Gaslight, starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Joseph Cotton. In Gaslight, Boyer tries to drive his wife, Bergman, crazy by turning the gaslights in their home off and on, while denying this is happening. Gaslighting is now widely used to describe when someone is trying (consciously or unconsciously) to make you doubt your own memory, judgment, feelings, and connection to reality. When women are told they are imagining sexism, this is straightforward...

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by Andie & Al

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

Our Gendered Election

Among the most disturbing aspects of the recent Presidential election was the frequency and hostility of the attacks on Hillary Clinton because she is a woman. Gender stereotypes and the biases that flow from them are pervasive in our society. But prior to this campaign, most business leaders, diversity officers, and mainstream commentators would have said that women are discriminated against in their pursuit of career advancement because of unconscious gender stereotypes and biases — reflexive, automatic, and unintentional assumptions...

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by Andie & Al

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5 Ways to Deal With Difficult Coworkers and Reduce the Career Risks of Workplace Conflict

Disagreements in the workplace are of various sorts. One with a particularly high risk of harm to your career involves arguing with a coworker about how to perform a task, achieve an objective, or manage people. Such a disagreement can disrupt or destroy important personal relationships — and with them, valuable career advancement opportunities. You can substantially reduce this danger, however, by following a few ground rules for dealing with difficult coworkers. 1. Know that workplace conflict is different for women When...

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by Andie & Al

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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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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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Eliminating Gender Biases in Your Legal Organization’s Performance Evaluations

Most leaders in the legal profession would agree with Katherine Phillips of Columbia University Business School, when she said: “[s]ocially diverse groups… are more innovative than homogeneous groups.” Yet, as McKinsey & Co. recently concluded, “Corporate America [including the legal profession] is not on a path to gender equality.” Women are simply not present at senior levels of our law firms and corporate law departments in numbers anywhere comparable to men, and the reason is straightforward: the gatekeepers to women’s career advancement — the...

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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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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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Gender Stereotypes and the Biases They Foster Against Women in the Workplace

We all use stereotypes in our daily lives. They allow us to immediately “know” a whole host of things about particular sorts of people because of some other of their attributes. For example, we might classify someone as strong/weak, friend/foe, competent/incompetent, or skilled/not skilled simply because she or he is a woman or a man, black or white, old or young, rich or poor, and so forth. When we use stereotypes in this way, we can behave toward particular sorts of...

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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