Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace

PBOD (Personal Board of Directors)

Remember: white men constitute just 31 percent of the American population. There is no situation in which they should be constituting the majority of the room.

To be a woman in the working world means to have to work twice as hard and be twice as good, simply to be viewed on par with a man at her same level.

“I’m not sure I understand. Can you explain?”

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try one of these “male” words instead: independent, confident, intelligent, fair.

the next time an ambitious woman rubs you the wrong way, ask yourself: Would I dislike her if she were a man?

Behold the catch-22 of women and power. To be successful a woman must be liked, but to be liked she must not be too successful: her likability eroded by her professional status.

in workplaces that place top value on “overwork,” women are in fact more likely to be evaluated poorly and less likely to receive opportunities for promotions.