“Stay noisy.”
That is both the hashtag and mantra of Liz Dolan, co-founder and co-host of the award-winning radio show/podcast, Satellite Sisters, as well as an author and celebrated international marketer.
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If it would freak out your grandma, just don’t post.
Donna Shea, author and social and emotional learning specialist, says “emotional posting” can be the downfall of a career and prevent you from getting hired in the first place.
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“We all know there’s a problem,” said Amanda Signorelli, CEO of TechWeek, introducing the Women In Tech breakfast recently at the Chicago Techweek Growth Summit.
That was the understatement of the week, perhaps of the year.
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I landed in Phoenix @ 120 degrees. Or 122, but who’s counting. Yes, it feels like putting your head in an oven even if it’s a dry heat.
There’s lots of heat everywhere. They say if you can’t stand it, you should get out of the kitchen. I say this week gave us at least three more reasons why women need to stay in the leadership kitchen.
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Even with the addition of the latest Capitol Hill ping pong on paid parental leave policies during the recent Workforce Week,child care remains the single greatest concern for working mothers—and fathers.
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“Empowerment begins with access.” That is the mission and the tagline of MoneyOnMobile, India’s largest mobile payment platform, now in a new partnership with the Kalighat Society aimed at helping more than 75,000 low-income women in the Kolkata area become financially literate.
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Everyone remembers your parting words.
Marissa Mayer, former CEO of Yahoo, resigned from the company she led for five years “given the inherent changes to my role,” she said, accompanied by a $23 million severance package.
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To put a positive spin on it, we’ve had many examples of the power of a woman’s voice.
It started last Sunday during the Tony Awards, when best actress in a musical, Bette Midler, kept speaking her piece long after the escalating music signaled she should get off the stage. She took her time, thanked the women who came before her, and imperiously waved the orchestra off, declaring she had the floor. The way she took her time and space to make her voice heard felt outrageous and liberating at the same time. Her assertive presence must have made Amy Cuddy proud.
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Resist the urge to consume the mindless beach read this summer. You know what we mean, the cotton candy of a novel that if you left it in the sand it would be OK with you.
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Gillian Downey sings a different tune now as chief operating officer of i.c.stars, than she did early on in her career. And the world is better for it.
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Not every working father has a hint of the glamorous life of new dad George Clooney.He welcomed his twins Ella And Alexander recently when his wife, Amal (an international human rights lawyer), gave birth to the pair. This weekend will be his first Father’s Day as a father.
The high profile silencing of women experts this past week has been stunning.
At a nearly all-male panel of five men and one woman at the World Science Festival in New York, Veronika Hubeny, theoretical physicist at University of California- Davis, was interrupted, talked over and her theories explained to her by New Yorkermoderator Jim Holt.
Mansplaining at its best.
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