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📖 GLASS WALLS (Rowman & Littlefield, June 2023), CIO, Gender Bias Expert, Researcher, Consultant, Speaker, Traveler, Cyclist, Feminist, Equalist. She/Her/Dr.

Last Notes

2024-05-12 14:25:34

If you want your best talent to leave and go to work for your competitor, then go ahead and force them to return to the office. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/12/rto-microsoft-apple-spacex/

2024-03-19 00:29:39

Kara Swisher in BURN BOOK: "Silicon Valley had perfected the image of itself as a meritocracy...that anyone could become a billionaire. Tech has always been a mirrortocracy, full of ppl who liked their own reflection so much that they only saw value in those that looked the same." In other words, entitled white men.
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2024-01-05 01:48:26

"Obsessing over whether a candidate of color deserves a spot prevents everyone from noticing that white people get and keep positions without needing to be impressive at all." - Dr. Koritha Mitchell https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/claudine-gay-harvard-resignation-white-backlash-rcna132176

2023-10-29 19:44:06

Women have been socialized to be a 'good girl' and not impose on others. When we speak up, we are much more vulnerable to backlash. So we've been trained not to do it or have the confidence that it will work out in our favor.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lindsaykohler/2023/10/27/new-research-blasts-outdated-myths-that-women-lack-ambition-at-work/

2023-08-26 20:08:56

Michigan and Minnesota have reforms that increase voter participation, fair representation, and direct democracy. In turn, both have seen feminist priorities thrive: reproductive care, green energy, paid family leave and protecting trans youth.
@jweisswolf@bird.makeup
https://time.com/6307675/democracy-feminist-essay/

2023-08-26 19:33:46

As I told Debbie Laskey, while (unfortunately) no woman is exempt from gender bias, shattering the glass walls of gender bias IS possible.
Read my #WomensEqualityDay interview on #DebbieLaskeysBlog.
https://www.debbielaskeysblog.com/2023/08/gender-bias-and-womens-equality-day.html
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2023-05-24 11:52:10

White men can and often do fail upward. "A white male can direct a $200 million film, fail and get another one. That’s the problem. I get one at-bat, one chance, work twice as hard, twice as fast, twice as cheap.” -Eva Longoria https://variety.com/2023/film/news/eva-longoria-calls-out-hollywood-male-directors-second-chances-1235622605/