As we all know, sexism in the workplace is a serious issue. It’s something that needs active disruption and change.
There’s nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
You can be a leader in your workplace, your neighborhood, or your family, all without having a title.
There’s a common personality type to software developers – one I certainly fall into. We’re more comfortable staring at a screen than staring into someone’s eyes. Engineers can be brilliant in the workplace, and something less-than-brilliant everywhere else.
Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.
Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.
In ‘Power Play’, Finder uses the thriller structure to make pointed observations about gender in the workplace, the corporate caste system, and the true nature of risk in the global business environment.
Millennials tend to appreciate regular feedback because they want to feel that their work matters and that they are making a difference in the workplace. As the youngest generation at most organizations, they also tend to be hungry for growth and development opportunities.
It’s hard to keep family life and workplace separated.
One of the things that unfortunately happens in organizations that become dysfunctional is that the very first thing to go is the amount of care and attention that you place on the workplace and the environment within which people work.
I have long been puzzled by the entrenched mentality, and often enforced practice, of longer work hours and less sleep. Innumerable policies exist within the workplace regarding smoking, substance abuse, ethical behaviour, and injury and disease prevention.
Let’s teach our girls and boys how to show the same respect to their colleagues in the workplace they show their moms and sisters at home.
Women process stress differently. If we can change the workplace culture to make it more welcoming for women, we’re also going to improve behavior, and we’re going to improve outcomes.
Your kids are going to do well in the workplace of the future if they can bring creativity, if they can bring some innovation, if they can bring some entrepreneurialism.
Whether you’re an athlete or just someone aspiring to be at the top of your game – in the workplace, gym or even at home – it’s important to have that special something that sets you apart and helps you stay focused.
Political and economic insecurity inevitably translates into insecurity in people’s everyday lives, from lack of access to welfare to the increasing lack of security in the workplace.
Something I do naturally is I just involve women in my professional work. I hire them, I pay them, I put them in the workplace I’m involved in.
The key to an ideal workplace, in one hyphenated word, is this: self-awareness.
To be honest, women just make us smarter. They make us better. I’ve noticed that in my workplace. I’ve noticed that at home. I’ve noticed that in my past experiences in life.
I am focused on ensuring all Alabama children get a good start and have the resources they need to complete school, be prepared for the workplace and ultimately succeed.
For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.
We must ensure strong, fair and robust workplace rights remain in our country’s DNA.
Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.
The culture of a workplace – an organization’s values, norms and practices – has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
Motherhood gives you access to a range of different intellectual experiences and ways of seeing the world, which, in a way, makes you more flexible in the workplace. But our employers, our colleagues, don’t necessarily understand.
I do think we have a long way to go in terms of the culture around women still being career women, and asking a woman about her career and her work, just seeing them as fully validated human beings in the workplace.
My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.
People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.
I believe that any kind of mistreatment of anyone for any reason is unacceptable and abhorrent, and everyone deserves to be treated with respect in the workplace and anywhere else.
We want to take our activism and our power into action and change things for every woman, everywhere, working in any workplace.
We will not achieve gender equality in the workplace until we fix our system of parental leave.
Every generation brings something new to the workplace, and millennials are no exception. As a group, they tend to be highly educated, love to learn, and grew up with the Internet and digital tools in a way that can be highly useful when leveraged properly.
Together with Adobe, we’re committed to fostering creativity and a culture of teamwork for our shared customers so they can unlock the opportunities of today’s rapidly evolving workplace.
We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.
I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong.
I think that all men and women both, particularly women, hold back on parts of ourselves because they don’t fit into the traditional workplace model.
I think any workplace relationship is dangerous. That’s been my personal experience. They haven’t always worked out the best. But I know other people for whom it worked out great.
In the workplace, we’re taught to worry about what happens if we don’t have full, complete knowledge of every detail. But if you create a culture and an environment that rewards people for taking risks, even if they don’t succeed, you can start changing behavior.
When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.
As an expectant mom who is currently self-employed, I’m amazed at just how tied to the workplace maternity benefits are.
Executive branch rules require sensitive classified information to be discussed in specialized facilities that are designed to guard against the possibility that officials are being targeted for surveillance outside of the workplace.
The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people.
In the modern workplace, sexism has adopted a more subtle persona; therefore, people can be accused of sexism where it’s far harder to determine whether they’re actually committing sexism or thinking in a sexist way.
I cling to the hope that with more and more women in the workplace, we can teach younger generations to be respectful and also encourage young women to speak up when they’ve experienced abuse.
Since 2012, automatic enrolment has brought millions of people into a workplace pension for the first time, thanks to the support of businesses and employees across the UK.
A workplace culture where fathers are encouraged to take paternity leave would result in stronger families, a more equal labour market and a better economy.
What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
It’s a great dynamic. The dynamic between men and women in the workplace is really interesting.
I know a lot of CEOs who are looking for three- to four-year varsity athletes – not necessarily because these people are going to be doing pushups or spiking volleyballs in the workplace, but because they’re looking for that continuity, that person who was gritty about something.
We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.
On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.
I have actually had to ask my supervisors not to curse in meetings or in general in the workplace.
I’m friends with a lot of actresses, but my ‘SNL’ friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there’s a deep connection for having survived that workplace.
In the workplace, employees should be judged on their merit and hard work and not on aspects that are irrelevant to their performance.
