Women who lean back before offering their opinions have most success

Advancing womanSpeaking of helping women advance in the world of science and technology, blogger Mary Hodder offers a fascinating discussion of male-female differences and how they play out in the workplace. Men as risk takers, women as the ones who think ahead to prevent problems they KNOW they will be left to clean up……..hmmmm, that sounds familiar.
Women who lean back until all the chest-beating is done before offering their views are most successful, she suggests.
It’s  long post but well worth reading. What do you think?
She does offers a few concrete suggestions but says understanding the basic archetypal differences will gt us farther. Read more at https://napsterization.org/stories/archives/000763.html

  • help women get speaker training 
  • encourage and submit women to speak at events
  • help women pitch their companies to funders and get into the entrepreneurial ring
  • help women get mentorship and family support they need to stay on leadership tracks
  • help women get into science and technology tracks in school and keep them in those tracks in the working world
  • get more women in the room to change the tone of whatever is happening
  • when you hire, think about how women will read the ad: kick ass engineer will likely not get women applying
  • when you hire, remember the women undersell and the men oversell, and if you even them out they are similarly prepared for the job
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