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Tag Archives: sexismSettling the Score: Dorothy Seymour Mills Finally Tells Her Story
Dorothy Seymour Mills is one of the great baseball historians of all time. But you probably never heard of her. Instead, she worked alongside her late husband, Harold Seymour. From 1960-1990; he received all the credit and did become famous in his field. Together they completed three of the earliest and most widely read books on baseball history. First in the Field is Dorothy’s belated claim to her own life’s work. In it, she reveals her approach to baseball history, pervasive attitudes about woman interested in baseball, her reasons for finally demanding the credit she deserves so late in life and her struggle for recognition after her husband’s death. The short eBook reads more like a research paper than a memoir. But then, the author is after all first and foremost a historical researcher. First in the Field moves through her personal and professional history much as an encyclopedia entry might, chronologically from fact to fact, event to event. Readers will not find much in the way of literary language: Dorothy’s narrative is told without literary flourish or thematic subtlety. Yet despite the stylistic simplicity, or perhaps because of its straightforwardness and lack of pretense, the story will tug at the heartstrings of anyone who has experienced discrimination. And in recognition that one’s personal story is also political, Dorothy ties the personal injustices she faced to the widespread marginalization of women
Posted in 9 Ways Blog, Equal pay, Gender, Inspiration, Personal Relationships, Power Tools, She's Doing It, Tell Your Story
Tagged 9 Ways, empowerment, leadership, power, sexism, She's Doing It, women and power, women's history
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Are You an Iron Lady?The Golden Globe Awards this week featured the most gorgeous dresses I’ve ever seen (yes, I confess to being a fashion watcher) and Meryl Streep winning her 9th Golden Globe, for her extraordinary portrayal of the British rock-ribbed Conservative former …
Posted in 9 Ways Blog, Gender, Know Your History, Leadership, No Excuses, Politics, Power Tools, She's Doing It
Tagged 9 Ways, BlogHer, BlogHer Career, sexism, women and leadership, women in politics
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Friday Round Up: Know Your History & You Can Create the Future of Your ChoiceJuly 19th was the 163rd anniversary of the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention that is generally regarded as the start of the women’s movement in the U. S. So this week’s roundup has to be about power tool #1: Know your history and you can create the future of your choice.
Sandy Magnus and three other (male) NASA astronauts returned to earth early Thursday morning aboard the final flight of Atlantis. Magnus, 46, is an engineer and a veteran in space exploration since joining NASA in 1996. She now has the distinction of being the last woman ever to fly on a NASA space shuttle which is being retired after three decades of service. And she has a sense of history, and the historic nature of her own work.
Posted in 9 Ways Blog, Inspiration, Know Your History, Leadership, No Excuses, Politics, Power Tools
Tagged Allen West, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, democratic national committee, ESPN, Gloria Feldt, Karen Nyberg, NASA, No Excuses, No Excuses power tools, Sandy Magnus, Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention, sexism, space shuttle Atlantis, Women's World Cup
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Seriously? Must a Woman Be Like a Man to Get Ahead?
A second question just as surely follows: if we can’t be authentically who we are, why would we want to “succeed” in male-dominated organizations or professions? Many women who leave the corporate world to stay home with children or enter entrepreneurial or nonprofit fields—or alternately, remain quietly in their jobs put only to find themselves doing the work but not getting the promotions—say they do so because they don’t want to become like men. Yet all signs point to a potential breakthrough moment for women even as we debate the pros and cons of taking on male camouflage.
Posted in 9 Ways Blog, Define Your Own Terms, Embrace Controversy, Employ Every Medium, Equal pay, Gender, Inspiration, Leadership, No Excuses, Workplace
Tagged Anne Doyle, Arianna Huffington, career aspirations, Christine Lagarde, Ellen Gustafson, Equal Pay, Gloria Feldt, Jil Abramson, Julie Gilbert, leadership lessons, male camouflage, media, mentorship, power-to, sexism, sponsor, sponsorship, Tina Brown, Victoria Pynchon, women and culture, women in leadership
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Shay’s Story: Struggling to Be Taken Seriously at Work
Truthfully, I’ve never thought of myself as a feminist yet as I read your book and watch your presentations, I know that I am and always have been. I struggled from the time I entered the business world at 17 years old to be taken as seriously as my male co-workers. I made attempts to be unattractive so that my superiors would see that I was a smart, assertive hard worker. I was passed over for promotions and opportunities repeatedly. I was even once was told by the hiring manager that though I was the heir apparent, the executive team could not “picture” me in the job. They hired a man with 5 years less experience from outside the company. But I did not give up and I stayed at that company until I got the promotions. At a certain point, I brought up my concern that I was not being given deserved promotions based on my sex and age. I got the next one. What they feared even more than a smart woman who can call a spade a spade was a lawsuit.
Posted in Power Tools, Tell Your Story, Workplace
Tagged business, ChiKiitv, discrimination, sexism, Shay Pausa
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Different Approaches to Controversy Yield Different Results
I sincerely doubt Obama or his campaign advisers would have sought out this controversy, but when it came up, they realized they had been handed a priceless moment to demonstrate genuine leadership. I believe this was the turning point that led him to victory, and that if Clinton had treated the equally vicious sexism thrown at her with the same directness and candor that Obama confronted race, the outcome might well have been different. Sometimes we embrace controversies that have turned up on their own. And at other times, we need to create our own controversies in order to get things moving. In other words, there are controversies we make and controversies we take. What are your own examples of embracing controversy? Did you make the controversy or did you take a controversy that came to you? What did you learn from your experiences?
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Tagged controversy, Gloria Feldt, Hillary Clinton, No Excuses, Obama, power tool #4, race, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, sexism
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