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Women facing a scary diagnosis and grueling treatment find they can continue in their careers.
Subha Barry had just been promoted to manager of Merrill Lynch's corporate campus in Princeton , N.J. , when she found out she had Hodgkin's lymphoma. Her daughter was…
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By Nataly Kogan for Work It, Mom!
According to this article I read in the New York Times more companies are allowing moms to bring their babies to work.
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My reaction, as I read it, was why would anyone want to bring their child to work? Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (100) | Blog
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by Nataly Kogan for Work It, Mom!
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Another title for this post could be: What the f* is wrong with us, women!
I read in an article over the weekend that according to the Workplace Bullying Institute (is there an institute for everything?) when women bully others at work they target other women 70% of the time, while men tend to target women and men equally. Workplace bully-like behavior is an ugly thing on its own, but the fact that women undermine each other and are nasty to each other more often just plain sucks. (I was going to write something more eloquent, but this topic doesn’t deserve it.) Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (92) | Blog
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By Karen Walrond, from
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Mom! Let's face it: Here in the United States, the last
few presidential elections have had their share of drama; however,
this year, this campaign seems to have taken the cake. It appears
everyone...
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By Nataly Kogan, from Work It, Mom! Last week all of these happened to me so yes, this is a vent. I hope you'll join me in the comments. So here goes, in no particular order: 1. Canceling a meeting 10 minutes... Read More »
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By Nataly Kogan, from Work It, Mom!
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A while back I wrote a post about the unfortunate way that confident women are often perceived in the workplace. As I’ve witnessed in my own career and as too many studies have suggested, they are viewed as aggressive, overbearing, and bitchy.
But recently I’ve come in contact with too many women who actually are bitchy to other women they work with. As I was dealing with one of them I started to wonder if there was something I was doing to cause her rudeness and bitchiness in communicating with me. I began to load my emails with all sorts of niceties and infused my phone conversations with her with an extra dose of politeness; her behavior didn’t change one bit. Then I met two other women who have dealt with her in the past and was relieved — how sad is that? — to learn that it was nothing personal towards me. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (133) | Blog
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By Nataly Kogan at Work It, Mom! At one of my past jobs I worked for someone I consider a truly toxic person. He would go out of his way to make people feel bad, embarrassed, insecure, and he would often talk about doing this intentionally. “I like to put people off-balance and see how they... Read More »
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I spoke to a reporter recently who is doing an article about women entrepreneurs. (Luckily she is not doing an article about mompreneurs because, well, you know how I feel about that.) One of the issues we touched on was how women are perceived in the business world. I told her my stories -- which you can read here and here. But then I said to this very nice woman that during my 10-year career in the business world I've developed some strong opinions about this topic:
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- Women who are strong and confident are often perceived as aggressive and bitchy.
- Women who are nice and collaborative are often perceived as weak.
- Once we have kids, many assume that our mom identity IS the entirety of who we are.
- Women are too often each other's worst enemies (we don't network as well, we don't help each other well, we are often catty).
This is all true, in my experience and according to some experts. But second to waving a magic wand and changing these ingrained perceptions and biases in the workplace, the only solution I can come up with is to try to not care and push ahead.
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