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Browsing category "Women"

Check-up for self-delusion

Posted to: Diversity |  Self-management |  Women
February 7th, 2010
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It’s unbelievable to me that everyone continues to watch football when we know that men are getting genuinely, permanently, brain damaged. The game is tantamount to cockfighting, only with people instead of animals.
The NFL has finally admitted the problem, to the extent it is poised to be the largest funding source for research about trauma [...]

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Workplace news you cannot use

Posted to: How to blog |  Productivity |  Women
January 25th, 2010
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I collect data points constantly, and I index them by topic, and I always hope that they will come together in an interesting, useful way. Lots of times, that doesn’t happen, and I  just have to throw ideas away, because I have a rule for myself that I have to be useful in every post.
But today [...]

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My miscarriage — on CNN, ABC and AOL

Posted to: Women
October 1st, 2009
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Embedded video from CNN Video
I don't usually post clips of myself when I go on TV. But I'm posting this one, where I talk about trying to get an abortion in Wisconsin and end up with a miscarriage at work instead. It was a difficult interview, which is why I like it. And, remarkably, I [...]

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You can't manage your work life if you can't talk about it

Posted to: Women
September 24th, 2009
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Recently I ran the following twitter:
"I'm in a board meeting. Having a miscarriage. Thank goodness, because there's a fucked-up 3-week hoop-jump to have an abortion in Wisconsin."
Why the uproar over this twitter?
Not only have bloggers written whole posts about the disgustingness of it, but 70 people unfollowed me, and people actually came to my blog [...]

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Hatemail: Email I get that I hate

Posted to: Job Hunt |  Journalism |  Women
June 22nd, 2009
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People always ask me to answer questions on my blog. So I am sort of going to answer questions. Questions I hate (that I have edited to save people from the trauma I probably caused David Dellifield):
Email number one: The obnoxious reference check
[Name redacted] is applying for a position at our company and listed you [...]

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What's the connection between abortion and careers?

Posted to: Career fulfillment |  Women
June 17th, 2009
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I have had two abortions.
The first one was when I was twenty-seven. I was playing professional beach volleyball. I was playing volleyball eight hours a day and I spent two hours a day at the gym. I noticed that I was getting tired more easily, but I thought it meant I needed to train harder.
Then [...]

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New gender gaps for the new millennium

Posted to: Entrepreneurship |  Money |  Parenting |  Women
June 2nd, 2009
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I have said about ten million times that there is no more glass ceiling, there is no more salary gap between men and women, and there is no reason to keep bitching about sexual harassment because it’s merely a legal issue, not a men-are-evil issue.
Okay. So if the gender gaps are not around these feminist [...]

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Three times you should lie at work

Posted to: Job Hunt |  Self-management |  Women
May 11th, 2009
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Everyone thinks transparency and authenticity are great. But sometimes you need to rein them in. I’ve talked about how I do this with my blog, which is really an example of how I rein myself in at work. There are times we each have to do this at work, and in some cases, we need [...]

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I hate David Dellifield. The one from Ada, Ohio.

Posted to: Fulfillment |  Women
April 13th, 2009
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This past week was Spring Break and toward the end, somehow my ex and my nanny fell out of the picture, and I was doing a lot of taking care of the kids, which, I have said before, is not what I’m great at. I wish I were. I tried for four years to be [...]

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The G-20 is Complete BS for Women

Posted to: Women
April 5th, 2009
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What is up with the constant photo ops of the wives of the men running the financial universe? What about the two women in the G-20? Do we put their husbands in the midst of this group of women? No. It would look insane. And that is exactly the reason that all the other women [...]

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When women get power at work, do they use it like men do?

Posted to: Mentoring |  Women
March 9th, 2009
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I told this guy who wrote to me that I do not remember ever actually meeting him, even though he says we had a great conversation.
He wrote back. He was relentless, so I asked him to tell me a bit about himself. He wrote, among other things, “I’m the guy you want to date.”
It was [...]

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5 Emerging trends from the recession

Posted to: Goal setting |  Job Hunt |  Money |  Women
February 20th, 2009
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As the recession persists, we can watch social shifts and cultural trends. Some are good, some are bad. But in either case, one way to control how the recession affects you is to watch the larger trends and decide where you want to fit.
Here are five trends that are emerging in the face of the [...]

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How to shift between work and dating

Posted to: Negotiating |  Self-management |  Women
January 23rd, 2009
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Here is a map of where all the single men are:
http://creativeclass.typepad.com/thecreativityexchange/2007/04/the_singles_map.html
I do not live near any single men. Well, I sort of do. My divorce lawyer has set me up with a few men in my hometown, Madison, Wisconsin. He told me that I am too focused on my work life. I need to get [...]

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5 Career tips women should run from

Posted to: Diversity |  Networking |  Women
January 12th, 2009
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There’s a huge market for telling women how to be happier. Maybe it’s because women read more than men. Or maybe it’s the discrepancy that women know when they are overweight and men don’t. Or the discrepancy that most men think they are good parents and most women think they need to be better parents. [...]

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High-income women get more oral sex. Maybe.

Posted to: Fulfillment |  Money |  Women
January 6th, 2009
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It is well known in the sex research arena that the more educated a woman is the more often she will receive oral sex.
I have always wondered if this is true for salary as well. For example, if your salary goes up by $50,000, how much more likely are you to receive oral sex?
I cannot [...]

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What women can do when they're young to be happy later on

Posted to: Fulfillment |  Women
November 18th, 2008
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New evidence from famed happiness researcher Richard Easterlin shows that women are happier than men in early adulthood, but at age 41, this switches, and men are happier later in life. Easterlin says this gap comes from frustration over an inability to get married. Because most people want to be married, and if you want [...]

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You should make Sarah Palin your mentor

Posted to: Mentoring |  Women
October 6th, 2008
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Is no one going to say that Sarah Palin rocked the vice presidential debate? Who is so arrogant to think that they could do better with just five weeks' preparation?
She did a great job. She memorized speeches that she trotted out in good moments. And she had such nerve! Most of us would [...]

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I hope I get to travel on Sarah Palin's plane

Posted to: Leadership |  Women
September 5th, 2008
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I wish I didn't love watching Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican convention so much. I love her hair. I love her outfit. I love that she is a great speaker even without a lot of time to train for the convention. I love her sort-of-Wisconsin accent that I sort-of hear myself getting the longer [...]

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Palin's children should take priority over being Vice President

Posted to: Parenting |  Women
September 4th, 2008
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Okay. Look. I wasn't going to tell you what I think of Sarah Palin, but so many people are asking, so fine. Here it is. She is nuts. And the Republicans are nuts for putting her on a ticket. She has a five-month-old kid with Down's Syndrome.
Why is no one writing about this? I have [...]

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Girl's guide to getting the guy at work

Posted to: Women
April 22nd, 2008
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We all know that the workplace is a minefield for sexual tension. Where else do you lock up people of the opposite sex for eight hours a day, and tell them to talk with each other but not touch? It is unnatural, and ever since men let women into the workplace, we have been adjusting.
It [...]

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