Women are penalized simply for being highly intelligent. Excellence shouldn’t make you less popular, but the data says it does. Here’s how to protect your career. When I was growing up, my mother used to get upset with me whenever …
Breaking the Cycle: How Women Are Socialized to Defer to Men and the Workplace Impact
From an early age, girls are taught to be agreeable, and to avoid threatening male authority. Here’s an uncomfortable truth. From an early age, girls are taught—both explicitly and implicitly—that their role is to accommodate, to be agreeable, and to …
How to Shut Down Mansplaining Without Losing Your Cool
I’ve had multiple clients ask me how to handle mansplaining, so this blog is for them. Many of us have been there. Someone explains something to us in a condescending way, assuming we don’t know what we’re talking about. When …