Enough Gender Pay Gap: 5 Ways To Get Paid Your Worth & Why It Matters

As if shaking up the world of sports coverage is not enough, new WNBA draft Caitlin Clark is embodying the gross discrepancy in pay for women for the same work as men.

According to CBS News, the former University of Iowa basketball superstar will make $76,000 in her first year with the Indiana Fever. That compares to “rookie Victor Wembanyama, the No. 1 NBA draft pick last year, whose 2023-24 season salary was more than $12 million,” according to ABC News.

No worries for Clark, though, as she recently signed a $28 million deal with Nike.

Career success, Gender ParityMichele WeldonApril 26, 2024Gender Parity, Pay Gap, Gender discriminationComment

A Little Lie? Why Fibs In Hiring And Workplace Happen and What You Need To Do

The truth is on both sides of the hiring process at many career levels, the recruiter often offers misleading information about the job and perhaps the company. Potential employees often pad their resumes.

Does the employer’s white lie and candidate’s CV padding cancel each other out? Maybe each party deserves what they get because they were less than 100% honest and transparent.

In the Australian TV series, “Fisk,” that debuted in 2021, the main character, Helen Tudor-Fisk, tells some big fibs about her experience as a trial lawyer after a divorce and career upheaval in order to get hired at a low-budget law firm. The show, many report, is very funny.

Changing the Workplace, Career successMichele WeldonApril 19, 2024Workplace Culture, Workplace Advice, LyingComment

OK To Cry? Expressing Emotions and Vulnerability Is A New Wave At Work

Raise your hand if you have cried at work.

My hand is up. Once early in my career when a boss was cruel in her comments to me in front of the newsroom and later in my career when a boss viciously chastised me for calling attention to a problem in the organization. Both outbursts were confined to me standing alone at the sink in the ladies’ room.

While this has been a definitively banned reaction for what seems like forever especially for women, new research shows being emotionally vulnerable in the workplace is optimal not just for employees, but for leaders and management.

Shirley Chisholm Lessons: 7 Inspirations For Each Level of Your Career

The new film, Shirley, with Regina King as U.S. Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm in her 1972 run for the presidency as the Democratic Party nomination, is a vibrant reminder of the value of male allies and mentorship for younger women.

In the months leading up to the 2024 presidential election, these are key lessons women can take to heart in every field and into practice at every step of the ladder from college to early career to mid-career and even the highest office in the country.

Social Media Savvy? How and Why To Make Your Digital Presence A Career Booster

In light of the recent overwhelming vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to ban TikTok in the U.S. due to its Chinese ownership and use of data from its 170 million users, it is prime time to take a look at your own social media use. And what it can and cannot do for you professionally.

Some posts can get you fired. But a positive social media presence and a willingness to expand your digital skills can enhance your career and your standing in the organization.

Just remember, every post lives forever, even when you delete.

Career successMichele WeldonMarch 22, 2024Social Media, digital presenceComment

Pick up Steam: Are Efforts To Get More Women, Girls in STEM, Tech Working?

The Oscar-winning film, “Oppenheimer,” that recently won Best Picture, has stirred national interest in the STEM career of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the nuclear physicist who is called the “father of the atomic bomb” as well as the field of physics.

With a predominantly male cast, in the film set in the 1940s, the closest a woman gets to sharing in scientific work and notoriety is his wife, Kitty, a traditional non-working spouse. Lisa Meitner, a prominent German nuclear Scientist, was asked to work on the project and she refused.

Career choices, Career success, Changing the WorkplaceMichele WeldonMarch 15, 2024Women in STEM, Women in TechComment

Living Up To Their Dreams: Gloria Feldt and Gloria Steinem on Making Movements

For Gloria Feldt, founder and president of Take The Lead, it was watching Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz,” in the theater as a young girl that taught her anything was possible.

“It was the first movie I saw where the female was the protagonist. Dorothy was a role model when girls did not have role models,” Feldt said in the recent lively conversation with Gloria Steinem and Jamia Wilson, author and activist.

Change Leadership, Career success, Women Career SuccessMichele WeldonFebruary 23, 2024Gloria Steinem, Gloria Feldt, ParityComment

Where Are The Best Jobs? 5 Strategies for New Grads Landing Tech Careers

It’s job application season for those who are graduating this winter and spring.

The good news is newly minted students graduating now with undergraduate and graduate degrees are finding high paying jobs in engineering, computer and IT, plus transportation, according to new data from QRFY.

But for many women and those identifying as women, the work cultures of engineering and tech jobs are steeped in gender and racial bias.

But where there is disruption, there is opportunity to change the culture.

Career success, Career choices, Changing the WorkplaceMichele WeldonJanuary 12, 2024Women In Tech, careers, diversityComment

Transformation Time: 4 Ways To End Centuries of Gender, Race Bias in Leadership

Change the work culture, change the system, change the path forward for all female leaders and it is possible to change not only the workplace, but the world.

A new study in Nature outlines distinct patterns of attitudes and behaviors in organizations that prevent and stymie a fair and inclusive workplace for women of color, particularly Black women.

“Our findings suggest that the compound influence of racial and gender biases hinders the advancement of minority female leadership by perpetuating stereotypical behavioral schemas, leading to persistent discriminatory outcomes. We argue for the necessity of organizations to initiate a cultural transformation that fosters positive experiences for future generations of female leaders, recommending a shift in focus from improving outcomes for specific groups to creating an inclusive leadership culture,” the report shows.

Career success, Ambition / Intention, Career choicesMichele WeldonJanuary 5, 2024women of color, career pathComment

Sizeism at Work: What You Need To Know To Make Workplaces Safe, Inclusive

It’s holiday party time at work.

If you are spending your days in an office, or you are going in from your remote office for the special in-person occasion of a year’s end celebration, there will be an abundance of buffets, holiday treats and goodies.

That can be wonderful and it can also be dreadful, particularly if you are labelled as overweight, a person in a larger body and fatshaming, fatphobia and sizeism are prevalent in your workplace culture. Subtle or overt comments such as, “Thats a full plate!” or “Why not try the fruit instead of the cookies?” may make anyone want to opt out of any celebration.

Sizeism is defined as bias or discrimination against an individual based on their weight or size. Women and weight is a toxic workplace stew with millions affected.

Changing the Workplace, Career success, MediaMichele WeldonDecember 8, 2023Sizeism, Workplace Culture, InclusivityComment

Yay Or Nay: 5 Questions To Help You Decide To Take Promotion Or Pass

Z friend was recently agonizing to a handful of us at a party about her great job offer in the company where she has worked for seven years. The offer included a title promotion, raise, cost of living expenses, global travel and high visibility.

What was the problem?

She would have to move almost immediately to New York from Chicago, a city where she enjoyed her personal and professional life with a great apartment, positive workplace culture plus family and friends close by.

Changing the Workplace, Career success, Career choices, Ambition / IntentionMichele WeldonDecember 1, 2023career path, career goalsComment

Great News: Women & Minority Owned Small Businesses Succeeding Now

Finally. We all could use positive news about women business owners in the post-pandemic, pre-recession universe. Thankfully, it’s here.

“Women business owners have a positive business outlook… Most expect revenue growth over the next 12 months, and a majority feel equipped to weather a potential recession.” According to a new Bank of America report, 2023 Women & Minority Business Owner Spotlight.

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