I’ve read the same articles you have. I know women are more reluctant than men to tout our own accomplishments at work and that our lack of self-promotion often causes us to fall behind in salary and career advancement.
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We hate to repeat ourselves (oh, not really!), but 2014 was an incredible year for Take The Lead and our mission of leadership parity by 2025! Thank you to everyone—the fantastic leaders and facilitators and attendees—who joined us in 2014.
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Wow oh wow, has this been an incredible year of achievements for Take The Lead and our mission of leadership parity by 2025!
Thanks to you—whether you’ve been a donor, volunteer, course participant, you attended our amazing Take The Lead Challenge launch or you attended one of our other events—we have reached close to a million people directly and in collaboration with our almost 200 partner organizations. Not bad for a first full year of operation.
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There’s an experience as universal to women as death, taxes, and overeating on Thanksgiving.
Andrea shares an idea at a meeting. No one responds. Ten minutes later, Andrew offers the same idea. Everyone jumps on the bandwagon. Andrew gets credit. Andrea is frustrated. She feels undervalued. And she probably is. Her pay for the same job with the same experience is 22% lower than Andrew’s. She gets exemplary performance reviews but is told she is abrasive. He gets the promotion based on his potential. Or, if she’s an entrepreneur, she gets less than 10% of the venture funding. He gets the rest.
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One of the best pieces of career/organizing advice I ever got is this: “You’re never going to convince anybody about anything. Work with the already convinced or semi-convinced.” I try to keep this in mind. I also keep in mind one of my values that we must work with people we don’t agree with. Balancing the two is difficult, but worth it.
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Some problems are really difficult to untangle. The complexity of global supply chains and ending sweatshop labor, for example. Or how to solve the problem of voter suppression. How to fund things that need funding while including the voices and opinions of the people we aim to “serve.”
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When Shirley Chisholm broke both racial and gender barriers to become the first Black woman elected to Congress in 1968 and later the first Black woman to run for U. S. president, she leapfrogged over more barriers to power than any woman considering a run today can even imagine.
Was she conflicted in her relationship with power? Just the opposite as the quote above indicates. How did she get that way and what can we learn from her on Election Day 2014?
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I love this time of year: Election Season. A time when videos emerge urging people, and more importantly getting people pumped, to vote. A time when I get to see political memes flood my Facebook newsfeed. A time where I feel powerful because I am invoking my right to vote for the decision-makers in my community.
It’s a great time.
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Sure, a “science-themed gift” can be a little … geeky. And the assumption is that the latest gadget or doohickey is made by a guy — or “bro,” to use the parlance of Silicon Valley. But who says so?
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The vast majority— 76% — of American parents think their children are getting a good education, a national survey conducted by the Associated Press reveals. But recent reports comparing U.S. education to education in 39 other industrialized countries show that they’re wrong.
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Chances are, you’ve heard of Emma Watson’s #HeforShe speech at the United Nations on Sept. 20. This address centered on a major, popular falsity that feminism is all about raging a war against men and creates an intense dichotomy of women against men. This is an inaccuracy that needs to be clarified and as Watson proposes, men must realize that feminism is an issue that affects them, too.
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There’s the cult of productivity ethic that tells you to do more, always more, for who knows what reason, often to your detriment. And then there’s going out and doing what you really want to do as a human being on this planet, day to day and in the long-term. These are different things.
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