Office politics. Difficult managers. Catty colleagues. Whether it’s miscommunication, competing agendas, or a mismatch of personalities, sometimes there’s no amount of goodwill and collaboration that can help prevent it. (And sometimes there are company cultures that encourage it.) Unless you’re in an unsafe or toxic environment where you need to look for another job ASAP, […]
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You probably already know the answer to this. There’s a gut feeling you have, deep down inside, that’s been flickering for quite some time. Maybe it’s no longer a flicker but a full-out siren, blaring at you to get the hell out of there. But you’re torn. There are reasons to stay (a steady paycheck,
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“Tienes que ser una lider.” My mom always used to say “You have to be a leader.” She would say this what seemed like every time I ever left the house growing up. To this day, I hear these words in my head over and over again but now I finally understand why my mom
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We’ve been on Slack since 2016 and with 50,000 active members and more than 2 million messages exchanged, it’s been thrilling to watch it – and YOU – grow. But now we’re moving on to bigger and better things. After a year of research, we found the perfect platform to replace it which we’ll be
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Black women make nearly $1 million less than white men during their careers. Yes, you read that right. $1 million dollars. Today, August 3rd is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day and while it’s an important milestone to acknowledge, it is not one to celebrate. On average, Black women are paid only 63 cents for every
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In the month of July in the U.S., Americans raise awareness about disabilities and celebrate Disability Pride Month. These celebrations honor the July 1990 passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability. Nearly 30 years later since the act was passed, people with disabilities still face
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Negotiating your salary may feel scary but it’s actually pretty straightforward. The best thing you can do is map out what you’ll say, anticipate all the ways they could react, and then practice how you’ll respond. Post-COVID, this is a time of transition for everyone and just as you’re figuring out what you can get,
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LGBTQIA rights have come a long way since the Stonewall Riots in 1969. In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Edie Windsor, a lesbian in tech and marriage equality advocate, a ruling that was followed by Obergefell v Hodges in 2015. The pair of rulings that recognized same-sex marriages as legitimate in the
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This week, Congress officially recognized Juneteenth as a federal holiday, the first new holiday to be established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983. Juneteenth celebrates the day when the last enslaved people were freed in Galveston, Texas, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation became law. Black people, and especially Black women,
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As part of the Ladies Get Paid Book Tour, sponsored by Comcast NBC/Universal, Claire Wasserman, founder and author of Ladies Get Paid, in conversation with Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger, discuss The Representation Project, free speech, and using anger as a tool for positive change. Claire: A
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