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Tag Archives: sister courageFriday Round Up: Will Egyptian Women’s Revolt Sustain a Movement?I was incredibly moved to see photos of Egyptian women marching in Tahrir Square earlier this week. A few hundred protesters were expected; thousands showed up. And they were angry.
This week’s protest was spurred my pervasive police and military brutality to women. Attacks on women, Power Tool #7: Create a MovementIn this video, women wearing their virtual shirts put their convictions into action. But they didn’t do it alone. In No Excuses, I show how to apply movement building principles to any area of life. Those principles can be described as Sister Courage: be a sister. Reach out and ask for help when you need it. give help when someone else needs it. Have the courage to raise issues. Put the two together with action and you have a movement. Think about it. When you needed to plan Thanksgiving dinner, didn’t you call on your sisters to help you plan the menu and distribute the workload? Those same skills can be incorporated into the workplace and in politics. Do You Value Yourself?
One of the things in the book that struck me was the stat that women are four times less likely to ask for a raise. Why? I don’t think we always value our worth as much as men value their worth. Men are pretty ruthless about valuing their worth, they’re not at all timid about it. In fact, they tend to overstate their worth. Women understate their worth. Why do women isolate themselves and try to fix things on their own? We’re working in a workplace culture that was designed by men for men, who could work day and night because they had a woman at home taking care of the house and the kids. And that paradigm no longer works for anybody, I don’t think. So as women have entered that workplace culture, if you’re the first one, if you’re the only one in a department, you tend to try to fit yourself into the predominant culture. That’s exactly why we need to consciously un-isolate ourselves and reach out with what I call Sister Courage. Ask another woman for help if you need it. Ask a man for help if you need it. Offer help if you think someone else needs it. Do you think that competition — women competing with each other and women competing with men — is a barrier to asking for help?
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