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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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Utah GOP Vice-Chair James C. Green wrote a letter, “Equal Pay for Women Has Consequences.” Here is our response.

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Utah GOP Vice-Chair James C. Green’s letter, “Equal Pay for Women Has Consequences”, submitted to the Wasatch Wave, got our blood boiling. As one of our Salt Lake City members put it, “That letter is gross and definitely made me pull a Picard-level face palm.”

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