We’re sending our daughters into a workplace designed for our dads

From LinkedIn authored by Melinda Gates:

“In January 1949, Fortune magazine advertised a survey of its readership. The ad announced: “We have just completed a statistical portrait of men, like yourself, who are readers of Fortune.”

It was accompanied by three illustrations showing a businessman sitting at progressively nicer desks. The nameplate on the first reads “Office Manager.” The next one, “Vice President.” And finally, “President.” By the final panel, he has gained a cigar but lost his hair. In each illustration, a female assistant takes dictation by his side.

Today, of course, there’d be outrage if an ad like that ran—because the American workforce has changed a lot. It’s now 47 percent female, and those women are doing a lot more than taking notes.

In some ways, our workplaces have evolved with our workforce. Paging through the rest of the magazine, you see a lot of things that didn’t make it to the 21st century. Smoking in the office. A special posture chair advertised as “something special for the girls.” Asbestos. Yet when you really think about it, in many of the most important ways, our offices are still stuck in the past.”

 

 

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Kansas Attorney MaKenzi D. Higgins Receives American Bar Association Recognition

From The Kansas City Star authored by PRWeb:

Attorney MaKenzi D. Higgins, a founding partner of Higgins & Corder, LLC, was recently nominated as an Associate Judge for the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Awards and Subgrants Committee. The committee is responsible for judging the awards of achievement applications, judging the general subgrant applications, and
assisting the affiliates assistance team with the regional summit subgrant applications. Only a handful of American attorneys are awarded these coveted positions.

“I am very excited to serve the American Bar Association and my fellow lawyers on a national level,” said Higgins.

The American Bar Association is one of the world’s largest voluntary professional organizations, with over 400,000 members and more than 3,500 entities. It is committed to serving members, improving the legal profession, eliminating bias and enhancing diversity, and advancing the rule of law throughout the United States and around the world.

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15 Things All Badass, Fearless Alpha-Women Do Differently from Other Types of Women

From iRelease :

“Laurel Thatcher Ulrich once said that “Well-behaved women seldom make history,” and those words have been printed on paper and typed onto the internet millions of time ever since. Although it’s easy to take the phrase to mean mostly whatever you want, in truth, these words are meant to celebrate women who make the world, in general, a better place, largely by being bolder and more creative than most other people. Read the following list to find out just how badass alpha-women really are, and to find out just how amazing they are.”

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How a woman’s appearance affects her career

From CNN Money authored by Julia Carpenter:

“While many women lighten their hair, replace glasses with contact lenses and wear high heel shoes to make themselves look more attractive in the workplace, Silicon Valley CEO Eileen Carey did just the opposite.

She told the BBC she grabbed glasses and dyed her naturally blonde hair darker, all to “be taken seriously” by her colleagues in the tech industry.

Studies show that managing appearance is a fine line for professional women to walk: there’s both a bonus and a penalty to being attractive in the workplace. Some research suggests women who take more care in their appearance earn higher incomes; other studies instead posit that attractive women are seen as less capable or less qualified for their positions.

According to Traci Sitzmann, management professor at the University of Colorado in Denver, something as simple as hair color really can make a difference in how a woman is seen at work. But those perceptions can really hurt women in the workplace.”

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Netflix asked a ‘Stranger Things’ pop-up bar to shut down with this humorous cease-and-desist letter

From Business Insider authored by John Lynch:

“An unauthorized “Stranger Things” pop-up bar in Chicago’s Logan Square has drawn crowds since it opened last month, but Netflix is now asking the bar to shut down after its designated six-week run.

The company’s request to the pop-up bar’s creators came in the form of a cease-and-desist letter filled with bizarre “Stranger Things” puns, including a light-hearted threat to unleash the Demogorgon, the show’s supernatural villain, if they don’t comply”

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Office Politics: A Skill Women Should Lean Into

From Harvard Business Review authored by Kathryn Heath:

“Who says women don’t like office politics? Just about everyone: My clients. My colleagues. My mother. The sommelier at the French restaurant I ate lunch at last weekend. They’ve all complained about office politics. Some women claim they are not good at it, while others simply avoid certain hot-button business situations because they think playing politics is “sleazy.”

Need more evidence? In 2013, my partners and I conducted a combination of surveys and interviews with over 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings, and one of the things that repeatedly fell into the dislike column was politics. In the process of coaching and training women leaders over the course of a decade, we’ve maintained a running list of common threads—and a disdain of office politics is in the top three. In reviewing several thousand 360-degree feedback surveys we found that both women and their managers cite political savvy as an ongoing development need for women.”

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‘Flaming feminist litigator’ Ruth Bader Ginsburg sets up Supreme Court term

From CNN Politics authored by Ariane de Vogue:

“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg looked out at the first year law class she was about to address at Georgetown Law on Wednesday and smiled broadly after being told the majority of the class were women.

“To look out a class like this is exhilarating,” the 84-year-old justice said. Ginsburg graduated from Columbia 58 years ago and there were only nine female students in her entering class. She would go on, as a young lawyer, to blaze new trails in the field for gender equality.
The moderator of Wednesday’s event — law dean William Treanor — asked Ginsburg how she chose her early career path.
She rephrased his question.
“How did I decide to become a flaming feminist litigator?” she asked.
The audience, including President Donald Trump’s daughter Tiffany, who is a first-year student at the school, burst into laughter.”

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The Ambition Collision

From  The Cut authored by Lisa Miller:

“What is this midlife crisis among the 30-year-olds I know?  Millennial women — at least those who reside in professional bubbles — seem to have it all. They are better educated, more prosperous, less encumbered by cultural expectations than any previous generation of women. They delay marriage (if they marry at all) and children (if they choose to conceive). They can own or rent. They can save or spend. These women have been on familiar terms with their ambitions all their lives — raised by careful parents to aim high (millennial women are likelier than their male peers to have professional jobs, to be managers, and to work in finance), and tutored by their cultural icons to perform their empowerment, and never submit. You know, “Bow down, bitches,” as they say.

So why are the well-employed, ambitious 30-year-olds of my acquaintance feeling so adrift, as discontented as the balding midlife sad sacks whose cliché dissatisfactions made Updike rich? The women complain of the enervating psychic effects of the professional treadmill as white-collar piecework and describe their dread as they contemplate bleak futures — decade after decade, they imagine, unfulfilled. After a lifetime of saying ‘yes’ to their professional hunger — these are the opportunity-seizers, the list-makers, the ascendant females, weaned on Lean In — they’ve lost it, like a child losing grasp of a helium balloon. Grief-stricken, they are baffled too, for they have always been propelled by their drive. They were the ones who were supposed to run stuff — who as girls imagined themselves leaving the airport in stylish trench coats, hailing a taxi with one hand while holding their cell in the other.”

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Before “Sorry,” Think

From Brave Enough:

“We as women have to stop saying “I’m sorry” for things out of our control. When we apologize for things we are not responsible for, we take a step backwards in the advancement of women in the workplace.

I am a cardiac anesthesiologist, which means I care for patients who are undergoing open-heart surgery. I work in an academic medical center and train doctors to become anesthesiologists. The operating room (OR) can be a high-stress environment, not to mention costly. As members of the OR team, we try to be extremely efficient with our time.

The very nature of what we do presents challenges, as our patients are critically ill and often times our plans do not go as anticipated. Difficulty in placing lines in our patients that allow us to give medicine and transfusions, challenges in airway procedures, or patients who are unstable under anesthesia are all equal opportunity tests that present themselves to both men and women resident physicians under my supervision.

However, there is something interesting that I have observed when watching residents. Male resident physicians, when faced with challenging procedures, rarely apologize for things outside of their control, appropriately so. While nurses and surgeons are standing in the OR waiting for our team to finish so we can start the surgery, you won’t hear a male resident say “I’m sorry.” Why? Because it is not his fault.

This scenario often plays out differently for female residents. While placing difficult lines or breathing for a sick patient, it is not uncommon to hear female resident physicians look at everyone in the room and say “I’m sorry.”

Every time this happens, I cringe.”

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Having confidence as a woman leader

From We Are The City authored by Nisa Chitakasem:

“As true as it is that 21st century woman leaders still face many challenges in the work – including the glass ceiling, misconceptions, social stigma, gender differences and negative employee reactions – the biggest challenge we face is ourselves.

Our levels of self-confidence as female leaders tend to fluctuate at the best of times and can often be critically low. What can we do to boost our confidence and performance as leaders?”

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