Ladies Get Elected: Your guide to the midterms đź—ł
November is coming. Here’s your guide to the midterms.
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Integrating personal passions into your work
Although I started working as a financial advisor to help people, as I transitioned roles I started to feel a large disconnect between my professional life and personal passions. I decided to go back and get my MBA and refocus on how to make money while having a positive social and environmental impact.
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Let your strengths and values be the guide
I had worked so long towards one single goal of becoming an attorney that I had no idea what else I was good out, who I was, what I was even interested in, and how to pursue a career outside of law.
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Should I take the leap?
Perhaps the lighthouse in our career should not be what we’re passionate about but rather, what we’re curious about.
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An intersectional approach to wage equality
Centuries of systemic oppression for sex and race do not dissolve in a matter of years, but the work that women are doing today creates progress and levels the playing field for the generations to come.
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Using privilege for good
At the time, I wasn’t angry–I was relieved. I hated the job and the boys’ club, and a few months of unemployment was just what I needed. However, as I look back, I see the patterns that led to such a clearly gendered decision, and almost 10 years later, I finally got mad.
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The value of connection
This desire for connection is the pulse of social work. It is what you get instead of a decent salary. It is what gets you to work every day instead of a high rise building with free coffee and a gym membership. It is the currency you are paid in.
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Why more women should take tech jobs
STEM fields have long been known to have a “boys club” work environment that perpetuates toxic masculinity and condones sexist behavior, which makes it difficult for the few women in any given tech department to feel comfortable in the workplace.
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Did you watch Dr. Ford’s hearing?
You’ll never believe who I sat next to.
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Women, anger, and the double standard
What I was encouraging them to do did not account for the experiences of women of color, who are under the immense pressure to stifle their anger so that they are not categorized (and thus penalized), as the “Angry Black woman.”
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