It can be especially difficult to determine what it means to come off as confident at work without overdoing it and coming off as conceited, or underdoing it and coming off as insecure.
A significant number of Black women strive to make it to top positions in their company, they’re also one of the groups who experience the most micro-aggression at work, making it particularly difficult to focus on those higher-level goals.
Ask a woman you trust—who can be open with you—to sample your interview process. She should look at the application, and go through ever step of the interview process. She can point out any inherent biases against women that may exist in the process.
Older employees are more organized at work because they’re more organized in their lives. Twenty-somethings are a mess, emotionally and practically. They’re still learning about health insurance and utility bills. Life is overwhelming for them. An older employee has her life on lockdown.
These days women statistics show that women are certainly making progress in the workplace. But is this enough?
You want to be taken seriously without being called that nasty b word.
Though women may have finally achieved a power advantage in society, it's still not enough to actually rule the world.