career

My boss only wanted to hire “pretty girls” and I didn’t speak up

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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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Stop sabotaging yourself

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My constant worrying about the “what ifs” and “buts” is a common part of the female ethos, one that makes up so much a part of our social and political identity, it’s difficult at times to even identify a separate sense of self, and one that has the grim potential to make us question our own abilities and ideas to the point of self-sabotaging.

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When my dad turned down a job, they called my mother and accused her of hindering his career

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How can it be that we have come so far and yet not far at all? While the number of those who still see women as second class citizens has drastically decreased since my mother’s career began, it still seems the voices against women, the wage gap and reproductive rights are just as loud as they were twenty or thirty years ago.

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