Thirty-Six Ways to Self-Care According to our Members
On social media this week, we asked our members how they self-care. Their answers were too good, we had to share.
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Money 101: How to Save, Spend, and Invest
Recap of our workshops, Money 101: How to Save, Spend and Invest
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5 Reasons I Changed Careers in my Twenties
After years of determination and struggling to climb the fashion ladder, I was in a new city with no job and a almost no social network. So what did I do? I switched careers and became a graphic designer.
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Leslie Knope would’ve been proud of my great-grandmother
All through her public career she was known as a “battler”. Marguerite held a prominent and decisive role in Dearborn political affairs in which she was a “colorful and controversial figure.” She was my great-grandmother.
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8 ways to be an activist when you don’t have time
My current workplace is unlike any environment I’ve ever been in before. Executive leadership is almost exclusively comprised of white men, and there are no diversity initiatives to speak of. As a Jewish woman of color in a leadership position, I knew that I was in a unique position to affect change at work.
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How to get over your fear of negotiating
Throughout the town hall meeting, the women on the panel told stories of how they negotiated the price of a product to investors, their admission into college and what it was like to be on the other side of the table during negotiations. The common theme? Fear.
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My boss only wanted to hire “pretty girls” and I didn’t speak up
I was one of the few women in the production crew. If the office hierarchy could be illustrated by a totem pole, I would have started out as one of the unglamorous but sturdy animals, like a beaver or a squirrel, the ones providing a fortifying nutritional base for the larger, sexier predators like eagles and foxes. The upper reaches consisted of all white dudes.
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Don’t Take the Billionaire Bonus
A key to getting what you want also means not taking what is wrong for you.
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Everything you need to know about the wage gap and how to defend it when people tell you it’s not real
If you Google “Wage Gap” the first thing that populates is “Wage Gap Myth”. No, the wage gap is not a myth, it is a calculation. We arm you with stats to back up your argument when you (inevitably) encounter those wage gap deniers.
What is “Women’s work” and why is it paid so little?
For the past year, my Twitter feed has been littered with news of women’s accomplishments in STEM fields and programs encouraging women to pursue higher paying careers that have historically been male dominated. This coverage led me to believe that women were, overall, making more money and that perhaps the wage gap had shrunk.
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