Category Archives: Women at Work

On The Road to Wellness and Health–Guest Post from Ellen Grant PhD

By Linda | June 27, 2012

I met Ellen Grant PhD at a Buffalo women’s function last summer. Her story is great, her information valuable. I think of how brave one has to be to become an entrepreneur like
Ellen. Hope you enjoy this guest post as much as I did. (Disclaimer: This is not an endorsement of the system [...]

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April 17, 2012–Equal Pay Day Again. Ho Hum. What Would Gloria Steinem Say?

By Linda | April 17, 2012

Juxtapose: I woke up this morning and NPR did not even mention that today was Equal Pay Day–the day when US women finally have earned the same amount as men in 2011–they had to work 3.5 months longer to do it. WITH: Dancing with Gloria Steinem on Saturday night.
Last Saturday night the legendary [...]

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Miami 2012: 97th American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) Meeting

By Linda | April 16, 2012

The best times are those that are totally unexpected. And nothing could have been more unexpected than day 1 of the 97th Annual AMWA meeting. More than 300 attendees enjoying a riveting program that held the interest of a most diverse group of women physicians, from surgeons to psychiatrists, from first year medical students to [...]

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Networking at Its Nastiest—Nannies for the Next Generation

By Linda | March 28, 2012

Mary Poppins is being replaced as the ideal, archetypical nanny. Spoons full of sugar to make work into play, playful imaginary adventures into sidewalk chalk drawings, and tea parties on the ceiling have given way to social introductions in infancy to the future rich and famous.
And who better to do this than the new [...]

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Creating New Policies and Procedures Can Be Harmful to Achieving Gender Equity

By Linda | March 16, 2012

Shared non-news item: A prominent and very large healthcare system that recently paid out a large sum of money for gender discrimination and a hostile work environment has produced new policies and procedures regarding such behavior. Step in the right direction? The old policies were pulled out and when compared to the new ones, little [...]

Also posted in Adventures in Advocacy, On the Job | Tagged gender equity, policies and procedures | 3 Comments

Gender Mentoring: A New Concept for Helping Women Advance?

By Linda | November 16, 2011

A mentor is one who imparts wisdom and shares knowledge with less experienced colleagues. This definition begs the question of what wisdom and what knowledge are needed? Wisdom encompasses lessons learned from life’s experiences. Knowledge encompasses information that helps to navigate new waters.
When all the less experienced colleagues were men, mentoring worked well. Why? It’s obvious. Those with [...]

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The Tuli Family in the News–Bringing Technology to Billions and Brain Surgery to Bostonians

By Linda | November 3, 2011

Two seemingly unrelated headlines:
The Aakash Tablet Computer is Available from India for $36!
Court of Appeals Rules Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Created a Hostile Environment.
The world is small, very small. These two events are related. These two extraordinary people are related. By blood.
Suneet Singh Tuli is the inventor of the cheapest computer tablet in the world. [...]

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When Doctors and Lawyers Feel the Same Pain–Hitting Their Heads on the Glass Ceiling

By Linda | October 10, 2011

Yesterday’s NY Times published an interesting article about the status of women in the legal profession in the US. Arguably, we really don’t need more lawyers, however, I must rail at the status of my sister professionals. Having disrupted dreams when doors are shut in our faces when inherent bias exists due to enormous structural [...]

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Mozart’s Sister—If Women are Equal to Men, Where Are All the Women Geniuses?

By Linda | September 28, 2011

Have you have ever been confronted with the question, “If women are really equal to men, where are all the women geniuses? Name just one.” When I was much younger and heard this silly rebuttal to women’s equality, I tried to name writers, scientists, and artists. My efforts were fruitless, and as my understanding grew, [...]

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Watch Out Harry Potter, Here Comes Little Jane Silver! (And New Author Adira Rotstein)

By Linda | August 24, 2011

With the release of the last Harry Potter movie, everyone is wondering, what will be the next great character to capture the minds and the hearts of (most) young readers (and maybe a few of us not-yet-grown-up older ones.) Well, I think I have found her. Let me tell you about Little Jane Silver.
Yup, you [...]

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