The Career Woman: Succeeding in a male-dominated environment

Unfortunately, it is still our reality as women to face workplace challenges — lack of respect, overt and insidious sexual harassment, man-terruptions — simply because we are women. Some fields are known to be male dominated businesses because they are majorly and traditionally controlled by the men. These fields are the Science, Technology, Economics and Mathematics. Women in these fields are regarded as odd people or people who have improperly earned their positions. They go to work every day already saddled with the task of proving their worth and abilities — a weight their male colleagues do not bear. The ready question would be; what can we do about this? I always encourage women to speak out against these circumstances and demand equal treatment and pay. Actually the following specific steps could be taken by women to experience more satisfaction in their job.

* Cultivate and Embrace Self Confidence: Women must learn to acknowledge their accomplishments so far as they are real and rightly earned and as much as possible avoid comparison.

* Create a Solid Peer Support System: Women should reach out to other women in the same industry as them and form relationships with them. Solidarity is a great key to success.

*Team up with a mentor: Learning from a successful woman in Upper Management, their stories and experiences in their field will help you cope with challenges and achieve success

* Personalized Feedback: Women should note the issues experienced and rely on the strategies that have earned them success. This way the know the best way to approach a task or find the right technical area to specialise in.

*Lead by example: Women must choose to attract what they expect, reflect what they desire, become what they respect, and mirror what they admire.

We can create the environment we want to exist and thrive in. We must take it as a responsibility and seriously too...

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The Empowered woman

I think being a woman,I mean a real woman is one of the hardest things ever!. You won't agree with this only if you are not a woman,but if you are a woman,then congratulations to you.You are a mysterious being but then again this congratulation goes to the 'real woman'. The real woman is that person that makes everything difficult seem easy.She is a hard worker,faithful friend and partner,a good manager,a home maker,a lover,a confidant,a mother,a sister,a daughter,a visioneer...Someone,may say,"Yea, ok...I'm not a mother or I'm single and so does that make me not a real woman?Of course not!. Age,class,status,beauty or achievements do not define a real woman,but character does. I can't but wonder at the stories we hear these days about women.I marvel at the rate of evil perpetuated by women in our society.Prostitution is old wives tale but when women are involved in armed robbery,kidnappings,terrorism,gang rape,adultery,fraud to mention a few,then by a...

The Career Woman

I stumbled upon this beautiful article on IFP while researching on other stuff and thought to share it. It's a 4 minutes read. I totally agree with it. Gender equality seems to be the one issue that isn't going away. Many of us like to believe sexism is something that only plagued the workplaces of yesteryear, but unfortunately it still exists. Don't believe us? Well, in 2016 just 57% of the world's working-age women were in employment, compared to 70% of their male counterparts. And even the females who were in work were struggling to catch up with the men. Women with full-time jobs still earn only about 77% of their male counterparts' earnings. Of course, the issue is complex and many expect that because most countries have made it illegal to pay women less than men, that gender inequality has fixed itself. However, problems surrounding unconscious bias , parental leave, and outdated stereotypes about gender roles persist in the workplace. But what are th...

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