Minasuk/ October 6, 2016/ Uncategorized

White House women want to be in the room where it happens | Washington Post | September 2016 When President Obama took office, two-thirds of his top aides were men. Women complained of having to elbow their way into important meetings. And when they got in, their voices were sometimes ignored. So female staffers adopted a meeting strategy they called

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/ October 6, 2016/ Uncategorized

White House women want to be in the room where it happens | Washington Post | September 2016 When President Obama took office, two-thirds of his top aides were men. Women complained of having to elbow their way into important meetings. And when they got in, their voices were sometimes ignored. So female staffers adopted a meeting strategy they called

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Minasuk/ August 27, 2016/ Uncategorized

Hillary Clinton talks more like a man than she used to | Washington Post | August 2016 In general, women tend to use pronouns (you, theirs), and especially first-person singular pronouns (I, me), more frequently than men. They also use common verbs and auxiliary verbs (is, has, be, go), social (friend, talk), emotional (relieved, safe, kind), cognitive (think, because), and

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Minasuk/ May 7, 2016/ Uncategorized

Talking while female: an expert guide to the things you definitely should not say | The Guardian | May 2016 I don’t want to read any more op-eds about what women should or should not say. Let’s just make things easier for everyone by laying down some ground rules that put a stop to the confusion: a Dictionary of WomanSpeak

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Minasuk/ October 21, 2015/ Uncategorized

Famous quotes, the way a woman would have to say them during a meeting. | Washington Post | October 2015 “Give me liberty, or give me death.”Woman in a Meeting: “Dave, if I could, I could just — I just really feel like if we had liberty it would be terrific, and the alternative would just be awful, you know?

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Minasuk/ July 28, 2015/ Uncategorized

Google Exec: Women, Stop Saying ‘Just’ So Much, You Sound Like Children | Jezebel | July 2015 Just when you finally got a handle on saying “sorry” so much, turns out there’s another detrimental phrase in your lexicon keeping you from being taken seriously as a woman: “Just.” As in, “Just checking in,” and “Just following up,” and “Just wondering

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Minasuk/ July 28, 2015/ Uncategorized

Young women, give up the vocal fry and reclaim your strong female voice | Guardian | July 2015 What’s heartbreaking about the trend for destructive speech patterns is that yours is the most transformational generation – you’re disowning your power.