Negotiate "Like A Woman"
A while ago, I was negotiating a job offer. After receiving the initial offer and meeting with the director to feel out what aspects of...
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Gender Bias Isn't the Only Thing Holding Women Back
If you mix yellow and blue, you get green. When people see green, they don’t see separate parts of yellow and blue – they just see...
What Organizations Overlook When It Comes to Social Networks - and How You Can Explain It To Them.
Recently, we sat down with Head of Insights at the FSCB, Kate Coombs, for a series of interviews. We will be sharing each of these with...
The Glass Cliff
Imagine being offered the promotion you have been waiting for. It’s more money, more prestige, and a role where you can really shape the...
Are You Taking on or Taking Turns?
Recently, one of us had a coffee with a colleague. After a few minutes of chatting, I realized that this dear friend was trying to gently...
This Year Instead of Giving, Take Something Away
How many articles will be published this winter and new year on what you should start doing? Each year, as the holiday season approaches...
The Five People You Need in Your Network
In a recent post, we shared how the informal organization creates hidden barriers for women’s career progression. We saw your incredible...
(In)Equality Begins At Home
The pandemic has been catastrophic for women’s careers. Women have borne the brunt of the job losses. In December 2020 alone, women lost...
You Are Not Diversity.
We both had strong responses when we saw this recent tweet: Let us count all the ways this email was biased – calling someone a...
Making Social Networks Work For You
A senior leader recently came to us with an urgent question. A woman in his organization was being evaluated for a big promotion. In this...
No, You Have Never Met a Queen Bee.
We were recently interviewing someone for a research project that focuses on the continued lack of women on boards in the UK. This man...
De-Bias Your Next Performance Review
The setting where gender bias will hurt your career the most is also the one where it is hardest to detect: in your performance review....
Lean In... To What?
Even if you have not read it, you likely know the headline message of Sheryl Sandburg’s 2013 book “Lean In”. She tells women to “lean in”...
Engage to create change: How to effectively confront gender bias in the workplace.
In our last newsletter, we offered you some new ways of describing the biases you see at work. When people get used to thinking about...
We should stop talking about implicit gender bias. Here's why.
You have likely heard this famous riddle. A man and his son get in a terrible automobile accident and are rushed to the nearest emergency...
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