Your Voice Deserves To be Heard
Collaboration. The word alone is enough to bring back the anxiety flashbacks from the high school group projects. You already know that you are not the slacker of the group, but you have to steel yourself to get through the project with that one employee who believes he has all the answers and wildly ignores the…
If you’re a straight man, workplace discrimination based on gender or sexuality is probably not high on your list of concerns, but for millions of woman and members of the LGBT community, it’s an everyday reality that’s hard not to be concerned about. Incidences of blatant or subtle sexism and discrimination in the workplace are…
The Society for Personality and Social Psychology published an interesting study in 2015 regarding male behavior with female and male bosses. The behavior was negotiating salary and splitting a bonus, and use a tool called an implicit threat measure to evaluate levels of subtle bias and feelings of threat that a subject might be unwilling…
It’s no secret that there’s a gap in pay from male to female within the same job roles, and that the workplace balance needs to become more even. But how do gender & sexuality in the workplace affect women, men, and transgender employees on a day-to-day basis? Here are the findings you may not have known about hidden bias…
It’s always good to go into an event like SXSW with a plan, otherwise you might get swallowed up in sheer potential of all the possibilities. As this year I wasn’t doing a full presentation, I decided to focus on networking. There are tens of thousands of people that attend SXSWinteractive each year, so who…
Earlier this month I went to a tech conference in the Bay Area and found myself watching a stream of men on stage talking about how they had been mentored throughout their journey as well as the opportunities that had presented themselves. This admittedly left me a bit dispirited because looking at them, I couldn’t…
Its in the news more and more often these days, that the men who organize events (particularly hackathons) are not sensitive to hosting women and even worse have treated women like perks. But as my experience at a ‘womens unconference’ confirms, it’s not just men that have that problem. Towards the end of the Keynote…